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Cities in motion: how slime mould can redraw our rail and road maps
- lutusp 13y agoQuote: "Researchers using slime mould to compare motorway systems found the US network to be among the least efficient." Yes, but only because the simulation fails to take geographical obstacles and terrain into account. In the simulation, the slime molds make their way across the Rocky Mountains as though they aren't present -- which, in the simulation, they aren't.