Slime Mold and the Tokyo Rail System

[PetalumaLoco]

Slime Mold Grows Network Just Like Tokyo Rail System

Wired Science article.

 

[DET63]

First, I'd like to see a real, to-scale map of the Tokyo subway system. The ones that I see online are like the London Underground maps: set up to show connections, but not necessarily to scale.

Second, I don't think the Tokyo system as humans have designed it is all that optimal:

(YouTube video)
Would the slime mold have designed a system that avoided situations like this?

 

[PetalumaLoco]

I don't know. Perhaps Amtrak could fund a study!

 

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