FIELD NOTE / Desktop pets
SiliconFly
A Metal-shader FlyWire brain makes a macOS fly twitch across windows.
README reviewedSource checked Sep 10, 2026
What’s going on here?
A macOS DesktopFly descendant replaces its small circuit with a full FlyWire v783 LIF simulation in Metal and maps named neural population activity to a procedural creature.
THE IMPORTANT BIT
Where the wiring ends,
and the model begins.
The README carefully separates measured wiring from shared LIF parameters, invented noise, sensory drives, and procedural body behavior.
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