NJX / VISION OBSERVATORYExplore the full connectomeBrain view
Compound eyeIndependent frontend recording · separate clockOpen ↗

DROSOPHILA · MEASURED GEOMETRY / RECORDED RESPONSE

A world through
1,709 facets.

Two compound eyes. Five spectral alternatives.
Explore a recorded optical response, from each
measured visual axis to its mapped neurons.

MEASURED FACETS
RECORDED INTERVAL
REGISTERED PHOTORECEPTORS
REPLAY SOURCELoading recording…
CONNECTOME REGISTRATION

Registration completeness will be shown when the recording loads.

Measured centers · schematic lens glyphs
MEASURED LENS CENTERSWebGL 2
Opening the eye recordingMeasured geometry · original simulation samples
INWARD PHOTOCURRENTRecorded samples · no interpolated activity

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SPECTRAL CLASS
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GEOMETRY & REGISTRATION

Lens centers and visual axes come from an independent µCT eye specimen. Hexagons are schematic glyphs, not segmented lens boundaries. The MaleCNS mapping is a best-effort visual-axis registration.

Flattened charts use measured azimuth and elevation, unwrapped separately for each eye. Equirectangular projection distorts areas and angular distances; it is not a map of retinal surface shape.

ABOUT THIS REPLAY

Activity comes from the isolated eye frontend: photon rates, photocurrent and its own photoreceptor voltage. This is model output, separate from the coupled full-connectome membrane trajectory.

Recording source & interpretation

Coordinates: +x forward, +y left, +z dorsal. Left and right refer to the fly. Color uses one fixed range across all times and all five classes of the selected recorded quantity.