GMU:DIY Bio: doing things with biology/Niloofar Ghanavati/Developed Idea/The first Idea of physarum project
Materials:
- Medium of my Project:
- 100 ml of distilled water
- 2 g of agar
- Mix Agar with water and microwave it till it starts to boil
- Fill the petri dishes and let it cool down till its gel
- Extract parts from another culture of physarum and oat flakes attach it to the medium
- I fed the plasmodium (alive already) with oats (I placed the organism in the middle) at surround the petri dishes to see what happens. After feeding I placed them in complete darkness with 25°C.
22.12.2018, First Day
23.12.2018, After 2 Days
24.12.2018, After 3 Days
25.12.2018, After 4 Days
26.12.2018, After 5 Days
27.12.2018, After 6 Days
28.12.2018, After 7 Days
29.12.2018, After 8 Days
30.12.2018, After 9 Days
31.12.2018, After 10 Days
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- The final first idea of the project:
The idea is to create a video in which an algorithmic design of a physarum is done and made. How can this exact physarum be obtained and some of the images from how it appears under the microscope? This video will accompany the examples of this sample growth. In this project, idea is to have the physarum polycephalum can grow from the Agar Medium to different opposite corners. The food will be placed on different of medium in different places so the specimen can move to it and describe different paterns like algorithmic design while it moves and then a create a video of moving.