Developer Made Flies Play Ambient Music in Ableton Using Connectome Data
teropa · x · 2026-09-10
A developer used the complete adult male fruit fly connectome—166,000+ neurons reconstructed from millions of 2D images into 3D by Google Research and HHMI Janelia—to make flies play ambient music live in Ableton.
The underlying map, the first complete brain and central nervous system of an adult fruit fly, is a major neuroscience milestone.
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