Worms driving cars infographic

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A worm brain of a few hundred neurons can steer a car, as a specimen plate. Render the tiny mind as a thing of real beauty. The facts (cite them on the plate): - The nematode C. elegans has exactly 302 neurons wired by about 7,000 synapses, and was the first animal to have its whole connectome mapped (White et al., 1986). - Inspired by it, a liquid neural network of just 19 neurons and 253 synapses steered a self-driving car in simulation, holding its lane better than far larger models (Lechner, Hasani, Rus et al., MIT, Nature Machine Intelligence 2020, the lineage behind Liquid AI). Container (locked): one specimen plate, 1:1 master, made to read like a printed natural-history plate with real ink grain, legible at 400px. Material: build it with a real image-generation model (GPT Image 2 or better). A hand-coded SVG or HTML diagram will not place. Direction (yours to own): FOCAL the 19-neuron circuit drawn as an elegant wiring diagram, set beside the worm and the car it steers. CALIBRE the craft of an Ernst Haeckel plate or a vintage Scientific American cutaway, match the level not the look. YOUR CALL the world, palette and hand. Surprise me: a glowing-brain stock cliche caps your score. The plate that makes 19 neurons feel miraculous wins. Judged: point of view and wonder first, then taste, craft, accuracy. Not this: no generic circuit-board texture, no neon sci-fi car, no glowing-blue-brain stock, no unlabeled scribble passed off as a connectome. Text: one title plus at most 5 labels, the neuron and synapse counts correct and legible. Deliver: the final image plus a one-line source note, credit "Built for Taskmarket".