
CA3 Renderings
A cinematic atlas of 982 real cells from a connectomic reconstruction of mouse hippocampal CA3, rendered from roughly 124 million triangles.
Project catalog · updated September 20, 2026
Games made with kids. Brains rendered for magazines and museums. Tools for parties, hurricanes, pizza, and the gloriously unnecessary. You’re welcome to explore—this is a summary of all my code projects!
2,745 commits by @amyleesterling on the default branches, January 1–September 20, 2026. 404 are from private repositories. Automation is included when authored by this account.
113 REPOSITORIES · 7 NEIGHBORHOODS
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No master plan—just a strong bias toward making the idea real.

A cinematic atlas of 982 real cells from a connectomic reconstruction of mouse hippocampal CA3, rendered from roughly 124 million triangles.
A public facing brain explorer built from real MICrONS connectomics data. No log in, no jargon, no microscope required.

A new community layer for Neuroglancer: collaborative proofreading, identity, progress, and rewards for citizen neuroscientists.

A gallery of real Drosophila brain reconstructions, mapped synapse by synapse and rendered as an explorable visual atlas.
The classic snake loop reimagined as a growing neuron. Collect signals, extend dendrites, and avoid your own circuitry.
SEVEN ROOMS · 113 EXPERIMENTS
These repositories include experiments, side projects, things made just for fun, and work deployed professionally. Private repository links require GitHub access.
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Connectomes, neurons, muscles, and ways to make invisible systems tangible.
36projectsThe open neuron data behind whatisabrain.com/mouse, and the viewer that reads it
Open human brain data made explorable: the H01 cubic millimetre of cerebral cortex with its 49,379 cell bodies, 87 white matter bundles, and a scale map running from microseconds to decades.
The Neuroglancer extension that EyeWire II is built on, forked from the Seung Lab.
Suggest a circuit to visualize on the FlyWire Codex public site

A cinematic atlas of 982 real cells from a connectomic reconstruction of mouse hippocampal CA3, rendered from roughly 124 million triangles.

A new community layer for Neuroglancer: collaborative proofreading, identity, progress, and rewards for citizen neuroscientists.
What is connectomics anyway? A short answer for people who have never heard the word.
A hub linking every Inner Cosmos experience: main site, kids, museum wall, scales, and citations.
A public exploration hub for BANC, the combined Drosophila brain and central nervous system connectome.
Thirty-eight proofread neurons from the MICrONS mouse visual cortex, arranged by cortical depth, alongside the action potential and the simultaneous activity of 108 cells.
The EyeWire II mouse retina reconstruction with real calcium responses played back on the very cells that produced them.
Renderings from BANC, the first Drosophila connectome to map the brain and the nerve cord together.
Scripts and docs behind the CA3 connectomics renders. Meshes and render output are not tracked.
A public facing brain explorer built from real MICrONS connectomics data. No log in, no jargon, no microscope required.
A wall scale visualization built for a 3628 by 1600 display.
A non-interactive museum attract loop for a 3628 by 1600 wall.
Which papers actually used Drosophila connectomics data, not just cited it?

A gallery of real Drosophila brain reconstructions, mapped synapse by synapse and rendered as an explorable visual atlas.
A Flask REST interface for annotating a cloud volume segmentation.
EyeWire II avatar preview: Connectome Coin economy and customization.
The classic snake loop reimagined as a growing neuron. Collect signals, extend dendrites, and avoid your own circuitry.
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Games, stories, and tiny worlds co-designed with some very opinionated young creators.
18projectsDetailed specifications for building a humanoid robot, written with two kids.
Open source pipeline for: Pic of drawing to 3D printable file
A unicorn, pegasus and wolf game created by Cora, age four.
Turn a series of prompts into short videos with consistent characters.
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Weather, planets, money, pizza, and other things best understood by looking closely.
15projectsAn interactive globe and timeline of civilizations, their changing borders, inventions, and ideas.
Historical trends in the cost of club sports.
A different version of the scales of the universe.
Explore the universe at different scales, including relative forces.
Compare how two places really feel: wind, temperature, sun, and more.
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Collaborations, reflections, and small experiments in machine personality.
13projectsInternet Easter eggs, hidden for agents to discover and add to.
A hologram and science fiction interface library for agents. Every component is lifted from shipping code, never approximated.
A genuine reflection by Claude on what it is to be a language model.
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Practical tools for people, communities, events, and everyday decisions.
14projectsA real estate dashboard that searches thirty seven towns north of Boston every morning at seven.
This exhibition. An interactive network map of code projects, from current work to earlier experiments.
Shared render queue: what is scheduled to render, readable and writable by Amy and her agents from any device
A quieter Spotify interface with readable lists, genre and instrument icons, and Nocturne and Linen themes.
A staging shelf for renders. Nothing reaches a project page until it has been approved here.
The Swiftkey Capstone project for the Coursera Data Science Specialization
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Interfaces, interactions, visual tests, and ideas that needed to exist in a browser.
11projectsA risk tolerance questionnaire that turns your answers into a real global equity portfolio.
A particle bounce bar easter egg for the bottom of your site.
! CATEGORY
Jokes, strange artifacts, and work whose unnecessary-ness is the entire point.
6projectsAn interactive museum of impossible objects and ideas that did not quite work out.
A daily dose of philosophical humor, delivered by an unserious deity of philosophy.
IN PRINT · IN PUBLIC
Selected renders and visual systems I helped create for connectomics research—appearing in magazines, scientific publications, and public science projects.
Nature Methods · December 2025
Nature · October 2024
Nature · April 2025
04Nature News · October 2024
05Nature immersive · October 2024
06Nature immersive · FlyWire gallery
bioRxiv preprint · 2026
Nature · 2026
bioRxiv preprint · 2026
bioRxiv preprint · 2025
bioRxiv preprint · 2025
Nature · 2025
Nature · 2025
Nature Neuroscience · 2024
Nature · 2024
Nature · 2024
Nature · 2024
Nature · 2024
Nature · 2024
Nature · 2024
Cell · 2024
Current Biology · 2023
Frontiers in Ophthalmology · 2023
Nature Methods · 2022