Filaments of the Slime Mold Cosmic Web and How They Affect Galaxy Evolution

The MCPM algorithm is an extension of the model by Jones (2010), who proposed a virtual Physarum machine with a simulated slime mold network. Similarly to their work, MCPM models the slime mold as discrete particle-like "agents" that swarm toward input "food sources."

Since the objective of the MCPM algorithm is to construct an optimal transport network given the input data points, the fitness function ensures that (a) almost all, if not all, data points are included in the network, and (b) the weight of the data points impact the strength of the connections in the network, i.e., agents have a higher probability of being attracted toward higher-mass galaxies.

It's going to take a lot of brain to properly decode the paper in to some code to do cool stuff with.