# Mycelium

> A slime mould network grown live by millions of agents that follow their own trails and avoid each other's, shaded as a living translucent tissue on agar. A real-time WebGPU experiment by Luis Bizarro.

Four plates: Slime (yellow Physarum polycephalum on dark wet agar between oat flakes), Petri (the same organism in amber on a pale dish), Neural (fluorescent axons between glowing cell bodies) and Hyphae (white mycelial cords and fine hyphae spreading from an agar plug). Three million agents per plate sense a shared trail map with three species, each with its own sensor angle, sensor distance and turn rate; the trail is shaded as height, with relief normals, a soft key light, translucency and a wet sheen, then tone mapped with AgX. The pointer is food, a click drops a burst of spores, dragging paints a nutrient trail, and scrolling or the plate links slide to the next plate behind a slanted wipe.

- Live: https://mycelium.bizar.ro/ (needs WebGPU: a recent Chrome, Edge or Safari)
- Built with: Raw WebGPU and WGSL compute shaders, TypeScript and Vite
- Author: Luis Bizarro, creative technologist and real-time 3D developer for the web

## Author

Luis Bizarro builds real-time 3D for the web with WebGL and WebGPU: shaders, interactive scenes and award-winning creative websites. His work includes Apple, Airbnb, Active Theory, National Design Studio, UNIT9 and independent studios.

- [Portfolio](https://bizar.ro/): every project and experiment
- [Portfolio for agents](https://bizar.ro/llms.txt)
- Contact: luis@bizar.ro