🌸 The Neural Garden update is out! 🌸
This patch contains the Neural Garden. A new animated Explorer!
Conceived and shaped in collaboration with ChatGPT — from the initial spark and name, to the flowing movement, intricate shapes, and vibrant palette — The Neural Garden is part data visualization, part interactive art.
Included in this update:
🌿 The Neural Garden Explorer
🎨 Choose your own colors and see BMU weights in vivid detail
🐝 Follow each data sample through every iteration
🔍 Zoom in and inspect the numbers driving each BMU
Hope to see you in the garden to watch the flowers bloom! 🌺
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