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Physarum polycephalum is a large single amoeba cell, which in its plasmodial phase,forages and connects nearby food sources with protoplasmic tubes. The organism forages for food by growing these tubes towards detected food stuffs, this…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-06-10 James G. H. Whiting , Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum has emerged as a model for self-organisation and coordination of contractile activity at large spatial scales. This self-organisation largely results from cytoplasmic flows generated by propagating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-23 Raphael Saiseau , Valentin Busson , Marc Durand

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large single cell visible by unaided eye. It shows sophisticated behavioural traits in foraging for nutrients and developing an optimal transport network of protoplasmic tubes spanning sources of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-05-03 Andrew Adamatzky , Genaro J. Martinez

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell, visible by unaided eye, which exhibits sophisticated patterns of foraging behaviour. The plasmodium's behaviour is well interpreted in terms of computation, where data are spatially…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-06-25 Andrew Adamatzky

We propose a novel model of unconventional computing where a structural part of computation is presented by dynamics of plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, a large single cell. We sketch a new logical approach combining conventional logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-05-23 Andrew Schumann , Andrew Adamatzky

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum displays adaptive transport dynamics and network formation that have inspired its use as a model of biological computation. We develop a Lagrangian formulation of Physarum's adaptive dynamics on…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-12 Ricard Solé , Jordi Pla-Mauri

In the realm of biological flow networks, the ability to dynamically adjust to varying demands is paramount. Drawing inspiration from the remarkable adaptability of Physarum polycephalum, we present a novel physical mechanism tailored to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-05 Vidyesh Rao Anisetti , Ananth Kandala , J. M. Schwarz

Acellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum is a popular now user-friendly living substrate for designing of future and emergent sensing and computing devices. P. polycephalum exhibits regular patterns of oscillations of its surface…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Andrew Adamatzky

Plasmodium of true slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, is an amoeboid organism, which spreads with developing tubular network structure and crawls on two-dimensional plane with oscillating the cell thickness. The plasmodium transforms its…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2009-04-10 Yuki Kagawa , Atsuko Takamatsu

We experimentally derived a unique one-to-one mapping between a range of selected bioactive chemicals and patterns of oscillations of the slime mould's extacellular electrical potential.

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2013-12-17 James G. H. Whiting , Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky

This paper introduces Polyphorm, an interactive visualization and model fitting tool that provides a novel approach for investigating cosmological datasets. Through a fast computational simulation method inspired by the behavior of Physarum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-08 Oskar Elek , Joseph N. Burchett , J. Xavier Prochaska , Angus G. Forbes

Optimization of fluid transport in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum has been the subject of several modeling efforts in recent literature. Existing models assume that the tube adaptation mechanism in P. polycephalum's tubular network is…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-01 Vincenzo Bonifaci

The Phychip project is a collaborative European research initiative to design and implement computation using the organism Physarum polycephalum; it is funded by the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by the European Commission within CORDIS…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2014-11-26 James G. H. Whiting , Ben P. J. de Lacy Costello , Andrew Adamatzky

Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is a large cell capable of solving graph-theoretic, optimization and computational geometry problems due to its unique foraging behavior. Also the plasmodium is unique biological substrate that mimics…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2010-11-23 Andrew Adamatzky , Jeff Jones

Plasmodium of \emph{Physarum polycephalum} is a single cell visible by unaided eye. On a non-nutrient substrate the plasmodium propagates as a traveling localization, as a compact wave-fragment of protoplasm. The plasmodium-localization…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2012-08-14 Andrew Adamatzky

Many cells face search problems, such as finding food, mates or shelter, where their success depends on their search strategy. In contrast to other unicellular organisms, the slime mold Physarum polycephalum forms a giant network-shaped…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-20 Lucas Tröger , Florian Goirand , Karen Alim

Slime mould plasmodia can adjust their behaviour in response to chemical trails left by themselves and other Physarum plasmodia. This simple feedback process increases their foraging efficiency. We still do not know whether other factors…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-17 Eilidh Stirrup , David Lusseau

Plasmodium of Physarym polycephalum is an ideal biological substrate for implementing concurrent and parallel computation, including combinatorial geometry and optimization on graphs. We report results of scoping experiments on Physarum…

Robotics · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Andrew Adamatzky

Plasmodium stage of Physarum polycephalum behaves as a distributed dynamical pattern formation mechanism who's foraging and migration is influenced by local stimuli from a wide range of attractants and repellents. Complex protoplasmic tube…

Biological Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 Soichiro Tsuda , Jeff Jones , Andrew Adamatzky , Jonathan Mills

Belgium is amongst few artificial countries, established on purpose, when Dutch and French speaking parts were joined in a single unit. This makes Belgium a particularly interesting testbed for studying bio-inspired techniques for…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-12-21 Andrew Adamatzky , Bernard De Baets , Wesley Van Dessel