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Nerves

    Nerves is one of my first experiments in interactivity. I wanted to create an interactive animation that illustrated the signaling process occurring between nerves. Neurons are stimulated by touching them with the mouse. A stimulated neuron sends signals to stimulate other neurons which are connected to it. Newly stimulated neurons in turn stimulate other neurons to which they are connected. Neurons react by becoming more or less sensitive to further stimulation causing the cascading pattern of reactions to change upon further stimulation.