worm-sim

The tiny worm C. elegans is one of the simplest multicellular organisms, and one of the only organisms in the world to have its connectome (neuron map) completed. Despite being so simple, C. elegans exhibits several complex behaviors. They will attempt to move towards food when they sense it, and move around obstacles when they make contact. After viewing a video of a connectome being used to simulate a worm brain and control a GoPiGo robot, I wanted to see if something similar could be done in the browser. In this demo, hunger neurons are continuously stimulated. If the worm nears food, food sensing neurons are stimulated. If the worm reaches the edge of the window, nose touch sensory neurons are stimulated. worm-sim is the open-source project heyseth/worm-sim (https://github.com/heyseth/worm-sim) by heyseth, released under MIT. Ion packages it unmodified from commit 656af282b2ad, adding only a manifest, an icon and a storage compatibility script.

Written by heyseth, published to Oikou by Ben Grande.

• ★ 425 stars on GitHub
• Licence: MIT
• Built from commit 656af282b2ad

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