Mycelium — a living network of golden threads

On screen

What Mycelium shows

Mycelium simulates tens of thousands of agents on your graphics card, like the slime mould searching for food. Each one follows the trail left by the others and lays down its own: busy paths grow stronger, the rest fade, and a network of nodes, loops and branches emerges and keeps reorganising, in golden threads on black, sometimes in cool blues.

The network is already woven when it appears. Its shape changes slowly, from thick veins to fine meshes or swirls, and grows finer and faster as the music livens up. About every eight seconds a food source appears: the network converges on it, then leaves it once it runs out. For rhythmic ambient, soft IDM, neoclassical and downtempo.