It started out as a liquid they poured into a mold and either baked or possibly left to harden exothermically on its own (like plaster of Paris or Portland cement). But the formula and technique got lost and forgotten sometime leading into the Middle Ages and the finished articles were so...
Slime mold [23] computation exploits the behavior of these protists to implement distributed optimization, e.g., shortest path, using the position of nutrients on the Petri dish to encode problems, and chemotatic behavior of the mold to solve them; the solution is read out from the ...
computation exploits the behavior of these protists to implement distributed optimization, e.g., shortest path, using the position of nutrients on the Petri dish to encode problems, and chemotatic behavior of the mold to solve them; the solution is read out from the distribution of mold cells...