Generative

Slime mould

Agents lay a trail and follow it: the network builds its own map.

Slime mould: a generative effect on the built-in sample photograph. Computed on your machine right now.
Open Slime mould in the studio

Controls

lattice
A number from 96 to 384, 288 by default.
agents
A number from 200 to 4000, 3000 by default.
steps
The age of the colony, not the detail: strokes first, then veins, then junctions
angle
Spread between the feelers. Narrow gives long smooth threads, wide a cellular mesh
turn
How sharply an agent turns per step
reach
How far ahead the feelers sense the trail. Sets how coarse the network is
decay
How much of the trail survives to the next step. Near one it saturates into haze
start
One of: scatter, disc.
ink
A colour, #f2e9d8 by default.
paper
A colour, #12100e by default.

Starting points

Nearby in Generative