Vie Physarale：用黏菌评估罗马道路
Vie Physarale: Evaluation of Roman roads with slime mould
摘要：
罗马帝国以其道路系统的逻辑设计和卓越的建筑质量而闻名。罗马人修建的许多道路在欧洲大陆和英国仍然在使用。罗马的道路是为军事运输而建的，考虑到效率，尽可能直。因此，这些道路是一个理想的试验台，用于开发实验室技术，以评估使用生物的人造交通系统。我们用黏菌多头绒泡菌（Physarum polycephalum）模拟铁器时代意大利道路网的发展。我们用燕麦片代表十个罗马城市，在罗马接种黏菌，等到黏菌用它的原生质管网络跨越所有的燕麦片城市，并分析原生质网络的结构。我们发现，大多数罗马道路，除了那些连接Placentia到Bononia和Genua到Florenzia的道路，都代表了多头绒泡菌的发展。由罗马人和黏菌开发的运输网络显示了平面邻近图的强亲和性，以及特定的最小生成树。基于实验室实验，我们重建了铁器时代意大利道路发展的推测序列。
英文摘要：
Roman Empire is renowned for sharp logical design and outstanding building quality of its road system. Many roads built by Romans are still use in continental Europe and UK. The Roman roads were built for military transportations with efficiency in mind, as straight as possible. Thus the roads make an ideal test-bed for developing experimental laboratory techniques for evaluating man-made transport systems using living creatures. We imitate development of road networks in Iron Age Italy using slime mould Physarum polycephalum. We represent ten Roman cities with oat flakes, inoculate the slime mould in Roma, wait till slime mould spans all flakes-cities with its network of protoplasmic tubes, and analyse structures of the protoplasmic networks. We found that most Roman roads, apart of those linking Placentia to Bononia and Genua to Florenzia are represented in development of Physarum polycephalum. Transport networks developed by Romans and by slime mould show strong affinity of planar proximity graphs, and particular minimum spanning tree. Based on laboratory experiments we reconstructed a speculative sequence of road development in Iron Age Italy.
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