🔗 Code Example: Slime Molds (Physarum)

🔗 References:

• Jeff Jone's paper

• Sage Jenson's blog post

• Physarum close-up images from Journeytomicro's ‘Slime Molds: When Micro Becomes Macro’

• Pixels p5.js Reference

🔗 Timestamps:

• 0:10 What is a slime mold?

• 1:16 Algorithm and approach

• 2:20 Create a Mold class

• 7:00 Create sensor variables

• 12:19 Explain how pixels array work and how to extract color values from it

• 19:16 Use pixels array to get sensing data from canvas

• 21:41 Compare sensors' values to determine direction to rotate

• 26:20 Use alpha value to diffuse trail map

• 31:02 Use modulo (%) to wrap around values