FIELD NOTE / Games

Fly Brain plays Snake

Sugar and looming signals steer a full-connectome Snake loop.

README reviewedSource checked Sep 10, 2026
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What’s going on here?

A local Snake server using a reported full FlyWire connectome and a Shiu et al. leaky-integrate-and-fire model. Its README maps nearby walls and body to looming inputs and apples to sugar inputs.

THE IMPORTANT BIT

Where the wiring ends,
and the model begins.

The repository calls out local data from a sibling directory; this catalog did not inspect that data or run the game.

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