Nature · Study 035
Mycelium
Fungal threads grow outward from a spore, wandering and branching until they fill the dish. A growth simulation you can seed anywhere.
What you're looking at
Each growing tip moves forward a short step, turns by a small random angle, and occasionally forks into two. A fork inherits a thinner thread than its parent, and a thread that gets too thin stops. Those few numbers produce the dense, searching network typical of fungal mycelium.
The idea behind it
A real mycelium is a single organism made of microscopic tubes called hyphae, and it explores soil in just this way, spreading thin until a tip finds food and then reinforcing the routes that pay off. Most of a fungus lives like this underground. The mushroom is only the fruit.
Try this
Click or tap to drop a new spore. The dish clears and restarts when growth has run its course.
