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A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome

Quality: 8/10 Relevance: 9/10

Summary

DesktopFly is a macOS app that renders a 3D fruit fly brain using a live FlyWire connectome-based spiking simulation. It exposes thousands of neurons in a real-time visualization and maps neural activity to observable behaviors, releasing under MIT and FlyWire-derived data licenses. Installation is straightforward on macOS 13+ with a Git clone and build script.

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