Observed arrival · 2026-09-13
FlyPaint: a fruit-fly brain makes generative art
An interactive browser experiment translates a simulated fruit-fly connectome into movement, pigment pressure, and endlessly changing paintings.
Field notes
The page combines a rotatable fruit-fly anatomy display, simulated neural firing, virtual scent cues, and a procedural drawing system. Its notes specify that a decoder converts model activity into brush speed and pigment pressure, while randomly selected guides determine subjects such as hearts, flowers, and spirals. The simulation uses a FlyWire-derived graph with 139,255 neurons and 2,698,236 weighted connections, and the resulting images can be saved as PNG files.
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