# Titan-Mycelium

Lab notes for a sealed material coupon with a difficult job: allow one short pulse of fungal growth near damage, then make sure it stops.

The contradiction is the project. Moisture and nutrients make growth possible, but they can also damage the host, support escape, and turn a modest repair into a much larger failure.

**read the full thing:** [pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/titan-mycelium](https://pinterittejeden-gif.github.io/titan-mycelium/)

## Current status

- **Starting point:** controlled fungal growth can bind lignocellulosic composites, with strong dependence on species, substrate, moisture, density, and processing.
- **Unbuilt step:** move one finite pulse of growth from manufacturing into a sealed damage zone.
- **Failure boundary:** activation, host protection, termination, containment, durability, and drift all have to agree.
- **Evidence today:** literature review and coupon design only; no organism, sample, or structural claim.

## Repository map

- `index.html` has the full idea, containment gates, failure conditions, roadmap, and papers.
- the mechanism diagram is drawn in HTML/CSS; `assets/` contains real reference images and [IMAGE_CREDITS.md](IMAGE_CREDITS.md) records where they came from.

If you know fungal biology or living materials and see a hole in this, open an issue.

the code is MIT licensed; my writing and diagrams are CC BY 4.0. details are in [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md).