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Mycelium [Processing]

Mycelium is a simulation of fungal hyphae growth using images as food, created by Ryan Alexander. The project originally started in 2005 while he was working at Logan in Venice, California.

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Hyphae grow into the lighter areas of the image while avoiding their own trails. Branching and growth speed are also functions of the avalible food (brightness) in the image. Type can be added by splitting the trails up into phrase-sized chunks of different colors. Each color is then stroked with text in Adobe Illustrator.

Created with Processing. For more images, see this flickr pool.

Mycelium

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  • alphakamp

    Very nice! Would you be willing to share the processing code?

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    Oh my, what a unique art you have here. Great and super!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=789915576 Lisa Dowling

    This is beautiful. I am a composer and instrumentalist. Would you ever be interested in collaborating in a film using this technique?

  • http://twitter.com/kaen_graphics reboot your graphic

    love this treatment – can we use the code to test it also ?

  • Cristi

    thank you for the inspiration. http://whitewolf.ro/

  • http://www.yagoona.ch feuerschale

    wonderful and amazing idea

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