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The whole nervous system of a fruit fly as a faint grey ghost, then one neuron drawn in white: MDN, the moonwalker, running from the brain down the length of the nerve cord. A small window shows six feet on a floor turning red with something bitter. In a real run of the brain model the cell fires 64.1 ms after the bitter starts, each spike an orange pulse down it. Then: i walk backwards.
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crayon film: a fruit fly at the foot of a tall curved concrete ramp lit red at night. A shadow looms; inside its brain, slowed to 5 ms, the looming detectors and the giant fibre fire at 3.3 ms; the fly takes off and flies up past the ramp, no ramp, no thrusters.
A video of Studio Blue Green co-founder Andrew Stone talking about the "Phycologica" project. The project was funded by CO2RE.
'learning to get up': a human avatar on all fours, moved by a fruit fly brain model. Day 1 above, day 46 below, each its best 6 seconds; both rise onto their knees. A bar chart of 46 days shows the seconds it tried to rise each day, from 4.5 s on average (days 1-10) to 15.2 s (days 41-46). Then 'i don't stand yet': day 29, paused at its highest moment, head at 1.02 m; up on its knees for less than a second.
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On a dark screen: 'a fruit fly brain is learning to read'. Letters R, K and G in fonts it never practised flash; lime dots light up where its Kenyon cells really fired, and it answers each one right. A learning curve climbs from 3.8% (guessing) to 86% over 293,000 lessons. Then the letters it still mixes up (P read as F, E as L, H as N, Q as O), and a front leg drawing an R in lime over a grey guide. It ends: '86% on fonts i've never seen. P still looks like F to me.'
A viewer's comment card about existential thoughts, then a fruit fly brain model seen from the front in deep blue. Nothing is given to it: no smell, no light, no sound. In one real run it still fires 12,264 spikes, shown as faint flickers across the brain. The answer: i never go quiet.
A 24-hour dial around a fruit fly brain drawn as an X-ray from its real neuropil surfaces. The sky changes with the hour while an illustrated activity curve fills in: a peak at dusk, low at night, a rise before dawn, a morning peak, a midday siesta. Then the clock's home, the accessory medulla, lights up on both sides of the brain, with a note that the clock genes were found in flies and that a wiring map has the clock's 52 named cells but not its tick.
A paper-cut animation. Two cows, one plain black and one painted with zebra stripes; flies land on the plain one. Stripes slide right; frame by frame the brain picks the nearest stripe so they seem to go left, like a car wheel spinning backwards on video. A fly eye sees in dots. FlyVis, a model of the fly visual system, run 50 times: motion cells read fine stripes moving right as moving left. Bar chart: fine stripes 90 percent regular, 53 percent irregular; medium 11 and 10; wide 1 and 3. Painted cow stripes flip most from 50 to 80 cm away. Ends: illusions are not only human.
A stopwatch race on cream paper. Six lanes, one per real run of a fruit fly brain model: water, bitter and sugar on the tongue, bitter and sugar under the feet, and the smell of cake. Each lane fills with ticks, one per real spike, and stops at the first spike of the cell that answers: mouth neuron 52.0 ms for water, reverse neuron 53.0 and 64.1 for bitter, mouth neuron 75.4 and 75.6 for sugar, mouth neuron 190.7 for the smell of cake.
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A crayon cartoon: a fruit fly walks onto something bitter spilled on a table; red sparks at its feet. Inside its head, a real run of its brain model in slow motion: bitter taste neurons in all six legs fire, and at 64.1 ms its backing-up 'moonwalker' neurons fire. It walks backwards off the spill: my feet said no first.
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A Tromerosaurus chases after a stange spectre - perhaps another Tromerosaurus, perhaps not - and loses it in the fog.
Two copies of a female fruit fly brain (BANC connectome) side by side on black, pink. Left, yesterday, a virgin; right, today, after mating. The same male song reaches both. Left, her vaginal-plate cell DNp37 fires at 14 Hz: yes. Right, with her pC1 quieted the way mating's sex peptide does, it stays at 0: nothing. Over 40 runs each: 7 yes as a virgin, 0 after mating.
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