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

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 127 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (23 children)

Spoiler: it's "just" a display. Bacteria are not doing any calculations. Unlike the crab computer.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (6 children)

The what now computer?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The crab computer

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That gives me some 3 Body Problem vibes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

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

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