barn Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi thinkers and alike, Could we use fungal growth to further improve networks? "Biological networks have been honed by many cycles of evolutionary selection pressure and are likely to yield reasonable solutions to such combinatorial optimization problems." Engineers thought, involving Tokyo's Railway Network could be an interesting experiment : Find the source, here It's titled: 'Rules for Biologically Inspired Adaptive Network Design' Good mind expanding, Barnsley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jsbrads Posted June 20, 2018 Share Posted June 20, 2018 I’m not sure it can. Fungi operate under a different set of motivations, but look the same due to a fractal convergence. There are common ratios in nature, like the golden ratio, Fibonacci sequence, silver ratio, etc. People might have chosen to live in certain locations due to the topology, upthrusting ground combined with erosion creating the fractal, not so sort of natural fit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barn Posted June 20, 2018 Author Share Posted June 20, 2018 (edited) 2 hours ago, Jsbrads said: I’m not sure it can. Fungi operate under a different set of motivations, but look the same due to a fractal convergence. There are common ratios in nature, like the golden ratio, Fibonacci sequence, silver ratio, etc. People might have chosen to live in certain locations due to the topology, upthrusting ground combined with erosion creating the fractal, not so sort of natural fit. Those are interesting thoughts, ideas. Sorry, you don't always respond to my replies, or takes ages for you (not an argument) but I rather skip you for now. Thanks for the interest, those are really interesting ideas, Barnsley E:dit - Thanks for the honest vote Edited June 20, 2018 by barn E:dit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jsbrads Posted June 24, 2018 Share Posted June 24, 2018 Life, can get busy. I actually consider myself to be one of the more prolific commenters. Tho without doubt I am very irregular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barn Posted June 24, 2018 Author Share Posted June 24, 2018 All good @Jsbrads No worries. (thnks for chiming back, looks like an honest one too, thumbs up) That's my preference earlier on, so that we're clear n'stuff... like I said, I nevertheless found those specific ideas interesting. Maybe later, some other time. Have a good one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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