Mycelium networks are promising substrates for designing unconventional computing devices providing rich topologies and geometries where signals propagate and interact. Fulfilling our long-term objectives of prototyping electrical analog computers from living mycelium networks, including networks hybridised with nanoparticles, we explore the possibility of implementing Boolean logical gates based on electrical properties of fungal colonies. We converted a 3D image-data stack of Aspergillus niger fungal colony to an Euclidean graph and modelled the colony as resistive and capacitive (RC) networks, where electrical parameters of edges were functions of the edges’ lengths. We found that and, or and and-not gates are implementable in RC networks derived from the geometrical structure of the real fungal colony.

菌丝体网络是设计非常规计算设备的有前途的基质，可提供丰富的拓扑结构和几何形状，信号在其中传播和交互。为了实现我们从活菌丝体网络（包括与纳米粒子混合的网络）中对电模拟计算机进行原型设计的长期目标，我们探索了基于真菌菌落电学特性实施布尔逻辑门的可能性。我们将黑曲霉真菌菌落的 3D 图像数据堆栈转换为欧几里得图，并将菌落建模为电阻和电容 (RC) 网络，其中边缘的电参数是边缘长度的函数。我们发现and , or and and-not 门可在源自真实真菌菌落几何结构的 RC 网络中实现。