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DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
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DesktopFly puts a 3D fruit fly on a macOS desktop and drives it with a live simulation of an actual fly brain. It runs 668 neurons and roughly 19,000 real synaptic connections taken from the FlyWire v783 connectome as a leaky integrate and fire model at 1 kHz, so the behaviour is computed rather than animated. Lunge the cursor at it and the takeoff happens only once the Giant Fiber genuinely spikes through its own synapses, which is why a slow approach is tolerated and a fast one is not.
Flagged 20 August 2026 · 537 → 1,065 stars · +98.3%
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