Supa Dupa Fly Fly
The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) by Missy Elliott (1997). A fruit fly circuit watched it for 4:13 and walked on a sheet of paper. It laid 43,242 marks and covered 65.9% of the plate.
Every color came off the video. Nothing is picked from a palette, matched to a reference, or corrected afterwards, so this palette belongs to the clip and to nothing else.
One playthrough makes one plate. There is no composition step, no target image and no second pass. The picture is whatever residue six feet leave behind.
A music video is light. A documented circuit walks. The fly did not compose this.
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Steered by a 7,346 neuron subgraph of MaleCNS v1.0, the published connectome of an adult male fruit fly, released by FlyEM and HHMI Janelia with the University of Cambridge, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Google Research. Used under CC BY 4.0.
- EditionYear Plate
- Number22
- Year1997
- Decade1990s
- Source SongThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)
- Source ArtistMissy Elliott
- Runtime4:13
- Marks43242
- Coverage65.9%
- Flicker Peak0.81
- Circuitsubgraph of MaleCNS v1.0 (7,346 neurons)
- Datasetmale-cns:v1.0
- Instrument Buildc546ce0eb977
- Resolution6144 x 4608
- Filmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvjP7JTh1zQ