DesktopFly

Description DesktopFly is a digital fly that lives on your desktop. Its escape reflex is driven by a real-time simulation of the Drosophila brain connectome (~140,000 neurons) — when your cursor moves nearby, signals propagate through the neural network and trigger the fly's escape behavior. Wandering and grooming are procedural behaviors layered on top of the neural simulation to keep the fly alive and interactive on your screen. You can grab the fly with your mouse and drag it wherever you want. No two flies behave exactly the same. Controls Left Click: Grab and drag the fly Right Click: Open context menu (Quit) Disclaimers / Notes First launch may take 10–30 seconds while the neural simulation loads. Please wait. Some antivirus software may flag the .exe as suspicious. This is a false positive from PyInstaller. Requires Windows 10/11 (64-bit). Credits DesktopFly created by notdekoy Brain simulation based on fly-brain-snntorch by Michał Antropik (Neuromorphicism), used under the MIT License. Original data from the FlyWire project.