You are one cell. No brain, no neurons, no centre — just several
million nuclei in a shared cytoplasm and a very good sense of where the food is.
The laboratory has some questions. Answer them from the inside.
Plate of the day
Experiment schedule0 / 20 logged
Objective
Dish conditions
Motor control
hold left / dragemit a growth cue — the exploratory front flows toward ithold right / shiftretract — pull cytoplasm back out of a regionthe reservecueing spends it and letting go rebuilds it, slower than it went; at zero the brush stops until you release. Nudge, let the chemotaxis run, nudge againspacehold the clockFtime-lapse — step the dish clock round the ladder, ×1/16 up to ×4; shift+F steps back down. ×1 is the dish's own clock, which is already about two hundred times real time — so even ×1/16 is a time-lapse. Where the dish cannot keep up with the rate asked for, the clock shows what it is managing insteadRreset the dish
hold / dragemit a growth cue — the exploratory front flows toward your fingertwo fingersretract — a second finger flips a live drag and pulls cytoplasm back out of a regionthe reservecueing spends it and lifting your finger rebuilds it, slower than it went; at zero the brush stops until you liftHold / ×Nthe control row stops the dish clock, or steps it round the ladder from ×1/16 to ×4 — same dish, watched slower or faster. ×1 is already about two hundred times real timeControlsresetting the plate and abandoning the dish are in there
Culture held
Biomass0
Reserve100%
Habituation0%
Replay
This plate
Observations
Dish log
Replay — the recorded run, played back. Your cues are the recording; Hold and the time-lapse still work.
Controls
hold left / dragemit a growth cueright / shiftretract — pull cytoplasm backspacehold the clockFtime-lapse — ×1/16 to ×4 (shift+F back down)Rreset the dish
hold / dragemit a growth cuetwo fingersretract — a second finger flips a live dragHold / ×Nstop the clock, or step it ×1/16 … ×4