Nature is truly breathtaking. No matter how you look at it, you will always find mesmerising complexity at any scale—whether its microbes on the tip of your middle finger, a choir of frogs in your local pond, a picture of a forest taken from a helicopter, or a picture of the stars taken by a fleet of expensive scientific telescopes—no matter where you look, you will find overwhelming complexity and beauty.

This is a pilot for a series of salons intending to teach computational biological modelling: understanding nature by recreating it ourselves, from the ground up.

<em>This is art class, computer class, math class and biology class, in one.</em>
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 	<li>How does coral grow?</li>
 	<li>Why do trees look like lungs?</li>
 	<li>⸮Why does seaweed pretend to be a plant even though it is <em>obviously</em> a colony of algae?</li>
 	<li>Why do <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold#/media/File:EumycetozoaWoblitz02.jpg">slime molds</a> look like brains?</li>
 	<li>How do we paint these self-similar organisms using magic ink?
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 	<li>And how do we make these paintings beautiful?</li>
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Laura Brekelmans