A C. elegans body + nervous system simulation. The real 401-neuron connectome (Cook et al. 2019) drives a physically simulated body through resistive-force-theory drag on an anisotropic substrate — no scripted locomotion, movement is a straight physical consequence of neural activity acting on body curvature. Built on Tessera.
- Loads the real C. elegans connectome (401 neurons, chemical + gap-junction synapses) into a sparse non-spiking network integrator
- One-directional pipeline: network activity → muscle curvature → segmented body → RFT physics → position/heading — nothing shortcuts this chain
- Live ImGui panels for network gains, locomotion parameters, per-neuron activity, body-angle profile (press F10 to hide them for a clean view, F9 to record a clip)
tests/worm_*_calibration— calibration/validation harnesses, findings (including negative ones) documented alongside the code
cmake -S . -B out/build -G Ninja
cmake --build out/build --target Demo_wormThe FetchContent call in CMakeLists.txt grabs
Tessera at configure time — no manual
clone, no extra setup beyond Tessera's own toolchain (Windows + MSVC).
- WORM.md — full reference: network model, body physics,
every
WormSim::Paramsfield - NEURONS.md — neuron naming/nomenclature
- docs/journal/ — calibration history, one report per phase (V2 through V5). Half of them are negative results: things that were tried, measured, and reverted, with the numbers that killed them.