Neurite Growth Simulator


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Dendritic arbor growth simulator

Press 'g' to toggle growth

Press 'x' for a new arbor

Press 'r' to retract dendrites when growth stopped (or hold during growth to bias toward retraction)

Press 'e' to extend dendrites

Press 'b' to create a branch

Press 'h' to display a histogram of branch order frequency (branch order is the number of branches from the start of the tree; i.e. at the soma).

Press 'm' to show attraction chemical map (will run much faster if off)

Press 'n' to show inhibition chemical map (will run much faster if off)

Press 'c' to change color map, cycles through 3 settings: branch age, normalized age, distance from soma)


Source code: Neurite_Growth_V2 Branch Neuron

Built by Todd Anderson with Processing