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Drosophila MANC Connectome Synthesizer

Benn Jordan (@bennjordan)

A browser instrument that plays the male fly's courtship song from the MANC nerve-cord connectome instead of samples. P1 integrates proximity and contact, pIP10 and pPR1 gate pulse and sine song, and a vPR6 and GABAergic loop in neuromere T2 sets the roughly 35 ms inter-pulse interval, driving MN-b1 and MN-b2. The Web Audio side models the wing pushing into air: drive rises from 0.8x to 3.2x between 2 mm and 25 mm, contact adds up to plus or minus 105 Hz of jitter, and a thoracic resonator sweeps its Q. Slowpoke mutants and sibling species are included.

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Drosophila MANC Connectome Synthesizer

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