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The creeping garden : irrational encounters with plasmodial slime moulds / Jasper Sharp and Tim Grabham.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Godalming, Surrey, England, U.K : Alchimia, 2015Edition: First editionDescription: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781903254783
  • 1903254787
Uniform titles:
  • Creeping garden (Motion picture)
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Contents:
Welcome to the creeping garden -- Articulating the organism : the genesis of The creeping garden documentary -- A meeting of minds : from concept to conception -- If you go down in the woods today : into a world of mushrooms, mycology and myxomycetes -- An alien invasion : blobs attack Texas -- Slipping through the cracks : the difficulties in searching for and identifying slime moulds in their natural habitat -- Bodies of knowledge : an overview of slime mould films, literature and collections -- Life cycles : the shifting forms and phases of myxomycetes, from spore to sporophore -- The slimelab : working with slime moulds in a controlled environment -- Recasting the mould : representation, communication and time magnification -- The Japan connection : a brief history of the significant body of slime mould research in Japan -- Knowledge networks : practical networking and problem solving potentials of Physarum polycephalum -- Art and articulation : where scientific creativity and bio-inspired art meet -- Unconventional computing and weird science : slime moulds as spatially distributed amorphous information processors -- Embodying intelligence : interfacing the organic with the man-made to control robotic devices -- Physarum memory : temporal and spatial memory in a single-celled organism -- Memristors, mappings and melodies : making sense of it all -- Final words -- Of method and madness : Jasper Sharp and Tim Grabham on the making of The creeping garden.

Companion to the documentary The creeping garden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcome to the creeping garden -- Articulating the organism : the genesis of The creeping garden documentary -- A meeting of minds : from concept to conception -- If you go down in the woods today : into a world of mushrooms, mycology and myxomycetes -- An alien invasion : blobs attack Texas -- Slipping through the cracks : the difficulties in searching for and identifying slime moulds in their natural habitat -- Bodies of knowledge : an overview of slime mould films, literature and collections -- Life cycles : the shifting forms and phases of myxomycetes, from spore to sporophore -- The slimelab : working with slime moulds in a controlled environment -- Recasting the mould : representation, communication and time magnification -- The Japan connection : a brief history of the significant body of slime mould research in Japan -- Knowledge networks : practical networking and problem solving potentials of Physarum polycephalum -- Art and articulation : where scientific creativity and bio-inspired art meet -- Unconventional computing and weird science : slime moulds as spatially distributed amorphous information processors -- Embodying intelligence : interfacing the organic with the man-made to control robotic devices -- Physarum memory : temporal and spatial memory in a single-celled organism -- Memristors, mappings and melodies : making sense of it all -- Final words -- Of method and madness : Jasper Sharp and Tim Grabham on the making of The creeping garden.

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