MoMaS: Mold Manifold Simulation for real‐time procedural texturing

The slime mold algorithm has recently been under the spotlight thanks to its compelling properties studied across many disciplines like biology, computation theory, and artificial intelligence. However, existing implementations act only on planar surfaces, no adaptation arbitrary surfaces is available. Inspired by this gap, we propose a novel characterization of work curved surfaces. Our easily parallelizable GPUs allows model evolution millions agents in real-time over surface meshes with several thousand triangles, while keeping simplicity proper paradigm. We perform comprehensive set experiments, providing insights stability, behavior, sensibility various design choices. characterize broad collection behaviors limited controllable interpretable parameters, enabling family heterogeneous high-quality procedural textures. appearance complexity these patterns are well-suited diverse materials scopes, add another layer generalization allowing different species compete interact parallel.