🧬 DARK WORM or How to Create Your Own Digital Worm This Weekend

🧬 DARK WORM or How to Create Your Own Digital Worm This Weekend

Did you know there exists a creature whose "brain" we know completely? It has exactly 302 neurons and over 7000 synapses. It’s called C. elegans - a millimetre-long nematode, the first organism with a fully mapped "connectome".

So I thought to myself... what if I brought it to life in a browser? 🖥️
The result: an interactive neural simulation with a Matrix aesthetic, where you can:

🦠 Feed it bacteria (chemotaxis)
💡 Shine a light on it and watch it flee (phototaxis)
👆 Touch it and observe the response of its nervous system
🧠 Monitor the activity of all 302 neurons in real-time

Why a worm? Because this is the foundation. If we want to understand how behaviour arises from neurons, we must start here. From 302 neurons to 86 billion in the human brain.

And also... it’s simply hypnotic to watch. ✨

Based on the OpenWorm project — an open-source endeavour to create the first digital organism. https://github.com/openworm/OpenWorm

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