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You can play Doom using gut bacteria, but the framerate is atrocious (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dantheclamman to c/technology

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Not running the game's code on a biological computer (maybe that's next?) but showing the opening frame of the game rendered in bacteria is a good first step

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[–] Potatisen 52 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The what now computer?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The crab computer

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

The researchers found that when two swarms of crabs collide, they merge and continue in a direction that is the sum of their velocities

I see this being incorporated into a maths lesson about vector addition.

[–] LazaroFilm 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That gives me some 3 Body Problem vibes.

[–] bassomitron 13 points 10 months ago

Haha that's exactly what I was thinking of, the million human computer.

[–] Asudox 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They're made using these crabs.

Also called "soldier crabs"

@[email protected]

[–] wikibot 4 points 10 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Mictyris guinotae is a species of soldier crab of genus Mictyris, endemic to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. They were named after Danièle Guinot, a professor at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in France, and were first treated as a separate species in a tribute volume to Guinot.

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