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Help the Fly Escape

Arrange household objects and observe flies navigating a 3D browser game. Rust/WASM simulation using a selected MaleCNS circuit.

MaleCNSCircuit subset
Fidelity · reviewed
L1 Dynamics

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

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Rating note

The Rust simulation crate integrates a leaky integrate-and-fire population with stated parameters (tau 20, threshold 1.0, reset 0.0, refractory 2 steps) plus baseline drive and seeded noise, voltages resetting and entering refractory on spike, with per-fly independent state. Documented neuron dynamics on a real MaleCNS subgraph, so L1. Not L2: the graph's weight vector is built once when the prepared subgraph is loaded and is only ever indexed to accumulate synaptic input; there is no plasticity, dopamine, STDP, eligibility trace or weight write anywhere in crates/sim/src. The README says as much in its own words - the connections come from real data, while the neuron equations, sensory inputs and movement rules are models.

Record

CategoryGames & control
DatasetsMaleCNS
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed incobanov/awesome-fly · townie/awesome-fruit-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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