"Hey Ian,
This was heaps of help! The growth of the physarum has been a lot better when I followed your advice, but I was wondering if the networks it makes are influenced by the size of the oat flakes I place on the dish? ofcource, it would but I…"
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Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Ronnie Aug 2, 2023. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Hey physarumnators! I am a year 12 student who is experimenting with physarum polycephalum to make optimised networks (similar to the famous tokyo railway experiment) to solve urban design issues as…Continue
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I think you're not using a large enough innoculum - slimes essentially burn biomass to move around, if you're getting white trails, they're abandoned branches which suggests there's not enough plasmodium there to get it to the…"
"cube inoculation, as you can see, its leaving a white ish trail and not acting the best! (day 2 of innoculation)
and here is the innoculation from an oat flake, sort of linear growth? (day 4 of innoculation)"
Some help regarding growth and inoculation please!
Hey physarumnators! I am a year 12 student who is experimenting with physarum polycephalum to make optimised networks (similar to the famous tokyo railway experiment) to solve urban design issues as a part of a design folio. However, I have had some trouble actually inoculating the physarum onto my design. If someone could tell me what I am doing wrong, or could improve that will be great! This is how I am going about this: I place oat flakes on a 2% agar petri dish (non nutrient based)…See More
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