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Can it run Doom?: Gut bacteria edition
Simulated 1-bit, 32x48 cellular grid runs at a blazing 0.00003 fps.
But these and the other many and varied examples of weird Doom platforms all lack the sheer biological oddness of a new model for displaying the game using a grid of E. coli bacteria. Ramlan's paper doesn't go to the enormous trouble of actually encoding all of Doom to run in bacterial DNA, which the author describes as "a behemoth feat that I cannot even imagine approaching." Advertisement After shrinking each game frame down to a 32×48 black-and-white bitmap, Ramlan describes a system whereby a display controller uses a well-known chemical repressor-operator pair to induce each individual cell in the grid to either express a fluorescent protein or not.
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