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CLUSTER FLY-FRUIT-BRAIN · 8 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-18

fruit fly brain simulators

This cluster consists of four projects that simulate or gamify a fruit fly brain, ranging from a desktop pet driven by a live spiking neural simulation of the FlyWire connectome to a browser-based connectome playground for games and perception tasks. The cluster's dated history is too thin to read a shape from — only a single dated entry exists before the index start, and most members appear undated or predate the index. Traction is led by desktop-fly with 767 stars, while the other two tracked members (LoFly and kick-the-fly) each have just 1 star.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

DEC 2024: 1AUG 2026: 2SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 2
DEC 2024OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 6 hobby · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 8 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01desktop-fly1k★1 mo—hobbyDesktop app that places a 3D fruit fly on macOS, driven by a live spiking neural simulation of the FlyWire connectome.
  2. 02werm198★13 dayslivehand-codedhobbyInteractive web simulation of the C. elegans connectome that lets users explore the 302-neuron wiring diagram and a generative worm field.
  3. 03kick-the-fly5★12 days—hobbyFirst-person game that lets players torment a simulated fruit fly brain while learning how its neurons respond to stimuli.
  4. 04fly-pong0★15 days—hobbyInteractive Pong game whose left paddle is driven by a simulated fruit-fly brain steering circuit, with a demo for watching and manipulating neurons.
  5. 05LoFly1★1 mo—hobbyBrowser-based connectome playground that turns fruit-fly brain signals into playable games, perception tasks, and audiovisual experiences.
  6. 06caucasiadoublevision2701.github.io0★1 mo—Simulates a fruit fly brain as a live 3D interactive pet on macOS.
  7. 07fly-buddy0★1 mo—hobbyTerminal-based digital pet fruit fly that grows by consuming tokens and has personality from neural connectome data.
  8. 08NEST Desktop0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceWeb-based graphical tool for interactively building and simulating spiking neuronal networks without programming, aimed at teaching computational neuroscience.

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