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Neural Cellular Automata

Excitable media with firing, refractory, and resting states — brain-like spiral waves

Controls

Draw mode: Click to fire
Generation: 0
Active cells: 0

Each cell has three states: resting, firing, and refractory. A resting cell fires if enough neighbors are firing; fired cells enter a refractory phase before resting again.

Click on the canvas to trigger firing. This produces action potential waves identical to cardiac and neural tissue dynamics.