DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly
A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome
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DesktopFly 🪰 A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop, with spiking simulations built from FlyWire brain wiring and the MaleCNS brain-to-leg network. It combines identified neural circuits with modeled senses, joints and behavior. The fly's brain window: 23,210 real neuron soma positions from FlyWire v783, with live spikes flashing at real neuron locations. The two glowing yellow markers are the Giant Fibers — the escape command neurons. Click any region to stimulate it. 17,224 measured connections. Simulated motor activity drives articulated joints, forward/backward stepping and steering, with joint and foot-contact feedback. The existing FlyWire brain connects through a modeled interface. current joint pose. Returning to walking carries that pose and its velocity into the mechanics. Body turns, landing pitch and wing folding now ease between states instead of snapping. clipping. Moving a window out from under the fly triggers takeoff instead of teleporting it to the window's…
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- Changelog
- 1.1.0 — 2026-09-05
- What's real
- Installation
- Windows
- Controls (menu bar 🪰)
- How real neurons drive the body
- Desktop ecology (all permission-free macOS senses)
- Regenerating the data
- Diagnostics
- What's modeled vs. measured
- License & citation
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A 3D fruit fly living on your macOS desktop, driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome
Repository facts
- Owner
- DenisSergeevitch
- Primary language
- Swift
- Stars
- 991
- Forks
- 75
- Open issues + pull requests
- 7
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-08-18T17:29:17.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-09-05T19:50:05.000Z
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