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Browser sensorimotor loop joining a modeled compound eye and optic lobe to MaleCNS descending-neuron readouts and a simulated flying body.

MaleCNS
Fidelity · reviewed
L1 Dynamics

Neurons are simulated — leaky integrate-and-fire or better — with documented, tuned parameters.

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The evidence

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Rating note

The full 166,700-unit MaleCNS graph runs as a leaky integrate-and-fire network with documented tauM/tauS/threshold/refractory constants re-exported unchanged from the upstream reference, plus an optional activity-dependent threshold shift - that shift is an intrinsic (spike-frequency adaptation) property, not a synapse. Not L2: the only line in the repo that writes a synaptic weight is the octopamine flight-state gain, and it multiplies every synapse onto an LPTC once at network construction from a fixed query parameter. Nothing changes a weight while the loop is running, and no optimizer touches the graph either. Notably honest: docs/followups.md retracts the project's own octopamine hypothesis and reports that a readout artefact inflated the published haltere and vision results.

Record

CategoryDesktop flies
DatasetsMaleCNS
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed incobanov/awesome-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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