I spent a month culturing physarum polycephalum (slime mold).
This was cultured inside a CD case by spreading warm agar across the bottom of the case and feeding the slime lots of oat pieces. Once it gets really hungry it starts to spread intensely.
I scanned at an interval of 5-15 minutes for several days. It is essentially a timelapse where I guided the slime to grow in certain shape.
This was cultured inside a CD case by spreading warm agar across the bottom of the case and feeding the slime lots of oat pieces. Once it gets really hungry it starts to spread intensely.
I scanned at an interval of 5-15 minutes for several days. It is essentially a timelapse where I guided the slime to grow in certain shape.
Animation Assistance: Enoch Ncube
Thank you Toko Hosoya
First I had to run some tests to understand how to culture and care for the slime. I ordered a kit with agar, petri dishes, and some live physarum polycephalum.
I scanned on an hourly interval, leaving the slime scanning and growing for days, until it completed its journey around the CD case.