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Infinite Sugar

Browser artwork placing a FlyWire-based fly in a terrarium with continuous sweet-sensing input. Neural activity drives some movements while wings and small foot motions use supplied patterns.

FlyWire
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

A whole-brain leaky-integrate-and-fire run over FlyWire FAFB v783 - 139,255 neurons and 2,700,513 edges at 1 kHz, with a 20 ms membrane tau, threshold 1.0, 2 ms refractory and a 4 ms delayed-inhibition queue, all stated at the top of the kernel. L1. Not L2: the weight array is unpacked and scaled once when the blob loads and is thereafter only read inside the propagation loop; there is no plasticity, dopamine, or training code in the TypeScript sources at all. The sweet-sensing input is continuous stimulation of gustatory neurons, which changes voltages and nothing else - the piece is explicitly an artwork about that, not a learning claim.

Record

CategoryDesktop flies
DatasetsFlyWire
LevelL1 — reviewed
Listed incobanov/awesome-fly · townie/awesome-fruit-fly
First indexed2026-09-15

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