Neural Network Prototype

Abstract visualization of a biological neural network: a 3D neural network brain built with three.js, shader-based rendering, and a lightweight Grunt workflow.

Live Demo

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Source

This project is a forked and modified version of the original nxxcxx/Neural-Network repository.

Overview

This project renders a 3D neural-network-inspired structure made up of neurons, axons, and moving signal particles. It includes a dat.GUI control panel for tuning visual and motion parameters in real time, including:

• signal count and size
• signal speed range
• neuron and axon opacity
• neuron, axon, signal, and background colors

Stack

• three.js
• custom vertex and fragment shaders
• dat.GUI
• Grunt for concatenation, minification, and local development

Local Development

Install dependencies:

npm install

Start the local server with file watching:

grunt serve

The Grunt config serves the project from the repository root on http://localhost:9001.

To rebuild the bundled app script:

grunt build

Project Structure

• index.html bootstraps the experience
• js/ contains the neural network logic, rendering flow, and GUI setup
• shaders/ contains the GLSL shader programs
• models/ stores the source neural-network mesh data
• css/ contains the app styling