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Eshel Ben-Jacob saw bacterial colonies as canvases—and let them paint. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

It sounds like after doing normal science (seeing how they reacted to changing environment or introduction of antibiotics) he realized there was a "language" to the reactions, that he could then play with to elicit different patterns more deterministically. They are colorless too, he used a blue dye and then photoshop to make whatever colors helped highlight the "art".

Quite neat.