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Both experiments seem to be interesting and right as metaphorical scenarios. If you attack the drug cartels they will spread all over the country to find new ways were to keep their trade going on. I would say the first one is what we would like to achieve in real life, even though the country would be covered by violence, when physarum ran out of options it would just start to rot. Physarum was less strong in S01, probably because it had less food sources and a less amount of oats. S02 has a perspective closer to reality, if you cut the food sources, drug dealers will find new paths to go to. Mexican people are very wit and smart when it comes to finding new solutions to problems that involve a good pay, in this case, drugs. | Both experiments seem to be interesting and right as metaphorical scenarios. If you attack the drug cartels they will spread all over the country to find new ways were to keep their trade going on. I would say the first one is what we would like to achieve in real life, even though the country would be covered by violence, when physarum ran out of options it would just start to rot. Physarum was less strong in S01, probably because it had less food sources and a less amount of oats. S02 has a perspective closer to reality, if you cut the food sources, drug dealers will find new paths to go to. Mexican people are very wit and smart when it comes to finding new solutions to problems that involve a good pay, in this case, drugs. | ||
'''For the time lapse map I will follow the strategy of S02, it is more realistic and it would be better for physarum to have more food since it is going to be moving in a bigger environment.''' | |||
Different color and light tests in petri dishes. | |||
<gallery> | |||
image:color_test01.png | |||
image:color_test02.png | |||
image:color_test03.png | |||
image:light_test01.png | |||
image:light_test02.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
===='''TIME LAPSE'''==== | |||
Arrangement and firsts tests. | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: time_lapse_site01.png | |||
image: time_lapse_site02.png | |||
image: time_lapse_site03.png | |||
image: first_tltest01.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
==='''TIME LAPSE TESTS'''=== | |||
After printing the Mexico 3D map the first time lapse test was made. The 3D Map was placed with agar inside a black container, a glass was used as a lid. Physarum was placed in strategic points near the oats. | |||
'''TEST 08''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: 3d_map.png | |||
image: Mar18_map.png | |||
image: T08.1.png | |||
image: T08.2.png | |||
image: T08.3.png | |||
image: T08.5.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
This is the video showing the results. | |||
'''[https://vimeo.com/160094871 Narco Cultivos Physarum Test08]''' | |||
Results: The time lapse was amazing but it started molding very easily, the glass was probably not a good idea, contamination from outside was coming in. Another test was going to be held, different agar, more oats (following the patter of the most important and violent cities involving drug trade). This time it was sealed with clay. | |||
'''TEST 09''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: T09_TIME.png | |||
image: T09_PRE.png | |||
image: T09.1.png | |||
image: T09.2.png | |||
image: T09.3.png | |||
image: T09.4.png | |||
image: T09.5.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
Results: Half of the test failed for a piece of paper from the time lapse setting fell into physarum, we decided to keep going but the test did not turn out as expected, Physarum did not touch two of the main oats, cities that are supposed to get drugs from Asia and South America. Another last test was run, different agar, the same amount of oats. | |||
'''[https://vimeo.com/161902466 Narco Cultivos Physarum Test09]''' | |||
'''TEST 010''' | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: First_set.png | |||
image: T010.1.png | |||
image: T010.2.png | |||
image: T010.3.png | |||
image: T010.4.png | |||
image: T010.5.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
Results: Physarum created most of the possible connections between the oats and the cities. It worked really well though some of the oats started to get mold. The next step was to replace those oats and clean physarum a little bit. I removed the traces of physarum where it was first put for it looked too white, the idea was to keep the map cleaner. | |||
:'''TEST 010.1''' | |||
Oats where placed in the next cities: | |||
[[File:T010_MAR29.png | 400px]] | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: T010.1.1.png | |||
image: T010.1.2.png | |||
image: T010.1.3.png | |||
image: T010.1.4.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
Results: Oats in the right side got molded, I don't really know why, some other oats had the intention of getting molded but physarum was stronger. | |||
:'''TEST 010.2''' | |||
More oats were going to be placed. Cities that were not fed before were not going to be fed again, with the intention of making those points in the map weaker. | |||
Oats where placed in the next cities: | |||
[[File:T010.2.1_nombres.png | 400px]] | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: T010.2.1.png | |||
image: T010.2.2.png | |||
image: T010.2.3.png | |||
image: T010.2.4.png | |||
image: T010.2.5.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
Results: Some physarum remained were the oats were and it kept the connections previously made but it mode so beautifully along the map that it even went to the glass. Again the right side, and cities like Merida and Cancún were molded so they were replaced but no more oats will be added to those points. | |||
:'''TEST 010.3''' | |||
The last move was to put more oats in just three remaining cities in the central part of Mexico with the idea of having the strongest cities already very weak. | |||
Oats where placed in the next cities: | |||
[[File:T010.3.1_nombres.png | 400px]] | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: T010.3.1.png | |||
image: T010.3.2.png | |||
image: T010.3.3.png | |||
image: T010.3.4.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
Results: The map started to get molded underneath the agar. Physarum remained on the glass looking for more food but it did not find any. Instead it started to grow as if it were spreading around the main cities or where the oats were. This may mean that if drug dealers would start to get attacked, they would stick to the place they know and surround it, being careful enough not to leave the place where they know they can get power from. | |||
:'''TEST 010.4''' | |||
No movements or food was placed in this last time lapse. What would drug dealers would do with no source of power? Unfortunately the map is starting to get molded but still physarum will keep moving and looking for food. | |||
<gallery> | |||
image: T010.4.1.png | |||
image: T010.4.2.png | |||
image: T010.4.3.png | |||
image: T010.4.4.png | |||
image: T010.4.5.png | |||
</gallery> | |||
===='''Final Video'''==== | |||
'''[https://vimeo.com/162486614 Narco Cultivos Physarum Test10]''' | |||
==='''CONCLUSION'''=== | |||
Physarum made so many amazing movements that is hard to analyze them just by looking at the time lapse 3 or 5 times. Every frame and every picture changes completely, it may not be very obvious but physarum moves really fast. | |||
In general the way physarum moves can be interpreted in so many ways, physarum can represent the drugs trade, the drug dealers, the people running away from the problem or even the violence in specific cities that then spreads all over the country. Many things are involved in this drug trade problem, many countries share a part of it but it is very concentrated in Mexico. It is more a social rather than a numerical problem as a whole, Mexico's government does not help at all, but this is a metaphor of how I imagine this problem that is causing so much death could be ended. In a way is attacking violence with more violence, this is the potential of a revolution. | |||