Coding Tutorial | Slime Molds (Physarum)

LET'S CONNECT ✨ Sign up for my newsletter at ✨ Instagram: ✨ Twitter: -- Links: 🔗 editor: 🔗 Slime Mold Code: 🔗 Introduction to Creative Coding Playlist: References: 🔗 Jeff Jone's paper: 🔗 Sage Jenson's blog post: 🔗 Physarum close-up images from @journeytomicro's video: 🔗 Pixels Reference: #/p5/pixels Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:10 What is a slime mold? 1:16 Algorithm and approach 2:20 Create a Mold class 7:00 Create sensor variables 12:19 Explain how pixels array work and how to extract color values from it 19:16 Use pixels array to get sensing data from canvas 21:41 Compare sensors' values to determine direction to rotate 26:20 Use alpha value to diffuse trail map 31:02 Use modulo (%) to wrap around values