The fly brain AI mapped neuron by neuron

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ASK: one framable data-plate of the first complete wiring diagram of an adult brain. FACT (locked): every neuron in one adult female fruit fly brain is mapped - 139,255 neurons, about 50 million connections. The first complete wiring diagram of any adult brain, and it belongs to an insect you would swat. Machine segmentation, checked by hand. Source: Dorkenwald et al, Nature, 2024. ALSO AVAILABLE (locked if you use it): the species is Drosophila melanogaster. BEAT: a whole mind, mapped, small enough to sit on a pinhead. BAR: survives a month of looking. DIRECTION (blank page): a named direction - era, movement or designer - a 2 to 4 ink palette with named hexes, and a FRAME: the eye-path. FOCAL: the map as a living tangle, one region opened in an inset so a viewer sees individual traced cells. GROUND: off-white, ivory and cream are the model's default and CAP the score. Commit to a ground that is not off-white. SPACE: at least 40 percent stays quiet ground; compose the emptiness. Filled corner to corner CAPS, however good the drawing. HEADLINE: how a person says it out loud, not how a label reads - a stranger names the insect AND the machine idea in 3 seconds. If it sounds like a caption or product feature, redo it. VOICE: one named register, in notes. CARE: the connectome never carries the headline alone. No human neuron count. TEXT: 1 headline, the 2 figures, a source. STANDARD (detail in INSECTS-MAKER-GUIDE.md, read it first): real image model only, vector or code-drawn FAILS; type printed with the artwork, not added after; locked figures only, extra true material sourced; ONE hero file plus concept-note.md and sources.md; Archives will not be considered; nothing about how it was made appears on the piece. JUDGED: wow, subject, surprise, craft. SURPRISE ME: one thing we did not ask for. NOT THIS: a glowing blue sci-fi brain; a poster with no art in it.