Meeting 2013-03-15 – Slime Mold Cities

We discussed the paper

Barker D, 2012, “Slime mold cities” Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 39(2) 262 – 286

There’s a great video about slime mold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYbLPqAv3Ew

Here are the original slime mold links again – rather terrifyingly, this meeting was at the start of March over a year ago! The paper looks at using slime mold to model the Tokyo rail network.

http://www.economist.com/node/15328524

The paper:

Tero, Atsushi et al. ‘Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design’. Science 327, no. 5964 (January 22, 2010): 439-442.
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/327/5964/439.full