A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
DesktopFly 🪰 A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses. The fly's brain window: 23,210 real neuron soma positions from FlyWire v783, with live spikes flashing at real neuron locations.
- ▪DesktopFly 🪰 A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome.
- ▪It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses.
- ▪The fly's brain window: 23,210 real neuron soma positions from FlyWire v783, with live spikes flashing at real neuron locations.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly |
| Publication time | Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:50:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-18T22:34:06.347Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-18T22:34:06.347Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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DesktopFly 🪰 A 3D fruit fly that lives on your macOS desktop — driven by a live spiking simulation of the real FlyWire connectome. It walks across your windows, grooms, sleeps, and decides to flee your cursor with the same neurons a real fly uses. 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. What's real 23,210 neuron soma positions (of 139,255 in FlyWire v783) render the rotating brain window, colored by super-class (FlyWire's coarse cell-type grouping).
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.