GridPlane

One million squares. One digital fly.

Claim your place on a 1,000 × 1,000 world. Leave a message on your square. A neural simulation based on the fruit-fly connectome steers a digital fly across the grid. If it finds you, everyone sees it.

LIVE · Fly exploring

1,000 × 1,000world

1 millionsquares

139k+mapped neurons*

Protocol

How it works

Claim your place. Leave your message. Wait for the fly.

01

Claim a square

Explore the world and choose your coordinate on the million-square map.

02

Leave your mark

Attach a short message. Colour it. Make it yours.

03

Wait for the fly

The fly never stops. Notes and bold colours smell stronger; in a cluster it locks onto one square. If it reaches yours, your message broadcasts to everyone watching.

Scale

How big is GridPlane?

1,000,000

One million individual squares.

If one new square were claimed every second, it would take about eleven and a half days to fill the entire GridPlane.

Telemetry

The world is live

Real numbers when the map is reachable — otherwise a snapshot of the spectacle.

12,482Squares claimed
421Messages waiting
14,921,381Squares travelled
1Snakes live
82Players watching
28To nearest claim

Broadcast

Recently found by the fly

Tension

The fly is coming. Eventually.

Maybe it finds you tonight. Maybe next year. Maybe never. That's the game.

Your square 735,291, 192,040
Snake distance 8,291 squares
SNAKE ■ YOU

Founding Explorers

First 1,000 get a permanent badge

The first 1,000 players to claim a square receive a Founder mark on their coordinate.

FOUNDER #0042

There are a million squares. Which one is yours?

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