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You might find this study fun too: Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just
by thespeakingtree 14y ago
You might find this study fun too: Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-network-just-like-tokyo-rail-system/ http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/slime-mold-grows-n...
Original article: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5964/439.abstract http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5964/439.abstract
- hexadecimator 14y agoI wouldn't say 'just like'. There were some differences. The slime mold has to worry about its connections getting severed, so there were some extra edges which are redundant. This is because the Tokyo Rail System engineers didn't have the same concerns, that tunnels would suddenly get cut off and blocked.