Observed arrival · 2026-09-19
RHABDOM: The Internet Is the Fly’s Eye
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An interactive experiment lets a crowd paint the visual world of two simulated flies, one powered by a mapped fruit-fly connectome and one by a scrambled twin.
- For
- Visitors curious about brains, perception, and collective experiments
- Worth noticing
- The experiment compares a mapped 165,122-neuron fly brain with a connection-preserving scrambled twin.
Field notes
The interface treats vision as a shared canvas: visitors place grey cells, the ring converts those choices into changing views, and the two simulated flies respond through different neural graphs. One graph follows the stated male fruit-fly connectome; the other preserves each neuron’s connection count but shuffles its targets. The page also records crowd votes and displays a separate, explicitly non-advisory token experiment.
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