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Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach
Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. This is a plasmodial, vegetative stage of acellular slime mould. This single cell has myriad of nuclei which contribute to a network of bio-chemical oscillators responsible for the slime mould’s distributed sensing, concurrent informatio...
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author | Evangelidis, Vasilis Jones, Jeff Dourvas, Nikolaos Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. Adamatzky, Andrew |
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description | Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. This is a plasmodial, vegetative stage of acellular slime mould. This single cell has myriad of nuclei which contribute to a network of bio-chemical oscillators responsible for the slime mould’s distributed sensing, concurrent information processing and decision making, and parallel actuation. When presented with a spatial configuration of sources of nutrients, the slime mould spans the sources with networks of its protoplasmic tube. These networks belong to a family of planar proximity graphs. The protoplasmic networks also show a degree of similarity to vehicular transport networks. Previously, we have shown that the foraging behaviour of the slime mould can be applied in archaeological research to complement and enhance conventional geographic information system tools. The results produced suffered from limitation of a flat substrate: transport routes imitated by the slime mould did not reflect patterns of elevations. To overcome the limitation of the ‘flat world’ we constructed a three-dimensional model of Balkans. In laboratory experiments and computer modelling we uncovered patterns of the foraging behaviour that might shed a light onto development of Roman roads in the Balkans during the imperial period (1st century BC – 4th century AD). |
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spelling | pubmed-55391952017-08-07 Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach Evangelidis, Vasilis Jones, Jeff Dourvas, Nikolaos Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. Adamatzky, Andrew Sci Rep Article Physarum Polycephalum is a single cell visible by unaided eye. This is a plasmodial, vegetative stage of acellular slime mould. This single cell has myriad of nuclei which contribute to a network of bio-chemical oscillators responsible for the slime mould’s distributed sensing, concurrent information processing and decision making, and parallel actuation. When presented with a spatial configuration of sources of nutrients, the slime mould spans the sources with networks of its protoplasmic tube. These networks belong to a family of planar proximity graphs. The protoplasmic networks also show a degree of similarity to vehicular transport networks. Previously, we have shown that the foraging behaviour of the slime mould can be applied in archaeological research to complement and enhance conventional geographic information system tools. The results produced suffered from limitation of a flat substrate: transport routes imitated by the slime mould did not reflect patterns of elevations. To overcome the limitation of the ‘flat world’ we constructed a three-dimensional model of Balkans. In laboratory experiments and computer modelling we uncovered patterns of the foraging behaviour that might shed a light onto development of Roman roads in the Balkans during the imperial period (1st century BC – 4th century AD). Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5539195/ /pubmed/28765532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06961-y Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Evangelidis, Vasilis Jones, Jeff Dourvas, Nikolaos Tsompanas, Michail-Antisthenis Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. Adamatzky, Andrew Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title | Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title_full | Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title_fullStr | Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title_short | Physarum machines imitating a Roman road network: the 3D approach |
title_sort | physarum machines imitating a roman road network: the 3d approach |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5539195/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28765532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-06961-y |
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