SCIENCE / MERCH

MaleCNS connectome shirts

MaleCNS is a public male fruit-fly central nervous system connectome release. Fruit Fly Fashion uses that release inside an art pipeline that mutates seed designs into shirt prints. This page is the commercial explainer. It is not an official Google or Janelia product page.

The public science

Read the upstream sources directly:

• Google Research: A connectomics milestone mapping the complete male fruit fly brain
• MaleCNS at Janelia

Those pages describe the map. They do not sell these shirts.

From map to merch

On fruitfly.fashion, the atelier runs the retained MaleCNS graph through an audited LIF proxy. Spike vectors steer geometric transforms on seed art. Fixed shirts publish proof videos. FLY PAINT lets you submit a brief and watch a lightweight booth projection before checkout. The production render is signed server-side after Stripe payment.

Pipeline and manifests: github.com/jtc268/fruit-fly-fashion.

What the shirts are

Comfort Colors 1717 blanks. About $39 for the six fixed designs. About $49 for FLY PAINT customs. Free US shipping. Printed after order.

What this project does not claim

• No affiliation with Google, HHMI Janelia, or game publishers.
• No claim that a biological fly is conscious inside the shop.
• No claim that the browser reruns all 25M+ edges live for every custom preview.

Imagery credit: MaleCNS v1.0, CC BY 4.0.