FIELD NOTE / Embodied flies
FlySim
An Apple Silicon fly brain turns sensory clamps into a native desktop creature.
README reviewedSource checked Sep 10, 2026
What’s going on here?
A Cocoa application runs a FlyWire whole-brain LIF network with C and Metal backends, exposes population inputs and outputs, and maps selected results to an animated fly.
THE IMPORTANT BIT
Where the wiring ends,
and the model begins.
The README provides author-reported benchmarks; the animated behavior and sensory mappings are project layers over the connectome.
Follow the source.
These links support the description. A source review is not a test of the program, its performance, or its biological realism.