Wow, I'd not heard of this. Here's a great article on it, and also fun to read:
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2025
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Smithsonian have some really good stuff! Thanks for sharing, I hadn't seen this before
So he spread nutrients in a pattern first, right?
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.
That's lovely. Thank you