Connectome fly

A spiking sub-circuit of the fruit-fly connectome runs in WGSL compute shaders and drives a NeuroMechFly body. Left panel: live firing rates and a spike raster.

Watch for grooming: when the fly stops, it cleans its eyes with the front legs or sweeps its abdomen with the hind pair, and it holds still until something interrupts it.

Interact

• move mousethe hand follows the cursor - approach the fly to loom at it
• click / spaceswat: fast approach, giant fiber fires, fly escapes
• Fdrop sugar - the fly stops the moment a tarsus touches it, then feeds
• Wfan blowing across the fly from its left
• Odrop ripe fruit off to one side - the fly smells the plume and follows it
• Rreset the fly   H hide the hand   P pause
• right-dragorbit   wheel zoom   C follow camera
• Bbrain view: terrarium → split → brain   V MaleCNS / circuit style   N whole nerve cord

Several flies (experimental) are on a page of their own.

Brain view

The outline is the MaleCNS template brain. In MaleCNS style the brain is packed with context cells, drawn the way the FlyEM renders are; they are scenery, not simulated. The circuit's own cells are drawn over them and flash when they spike. Circuit style shows only the simulated cells inside a glass outline. Drag on the brain half to orbit it.

Brain & internal state

Decoder

Looming detector

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