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FLYBOX
Explore a fruit-fly connectome inside a living sandbox
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Explore a fruit-fly connectome inside a living sandbox
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FlyBox is an open-source interactive sandbox built around a simulated fruit-fly connectome with 166,700 neurons and ~25.6M synapses. Give the fly food, predators, obstacles, light and other stimuli, then watch its neural activity and behavior change in real time. Stimulate or silence neural populations, lesion connections, fork experiments, compare brains and inspect what the fly is doing as it happens.
Products used by FLYBOX
Explore the tech stack and tools that power FLYBOX. See what products FLYBOX uses for development, design, marketing, analytics, and more.
GitHubHow people build software
5.0 (696 reviews)
Because FlyBox is open source, GitHub was the obvious fit. It gave me one place for the code, issues, releases, discussions, and contributions, while making it easy for anyone to inspect, fork, or build on the project. The ecosystem around open-source tooling and integrations also made it simpler to connect development with deployment and keep the whole project transparent.
VercelThe frontend cloud. Creators of Next.js.
5.0 (1.1K reviews)
I chose Vercel because it made deployment almost frictionless. FlyBox is a browser-first app with frequent iterations, so having automatic deployments from Git, preview environments, analytics, and global delivery in one place let me ship changes quickly without managing infrastructure. It also fit the architecture well because the heavy simulation runs on the user’s own CPU/GPU, while Vercel handles delivering the app reliably.