2 Years Mapping the Brain
Two years ago today, EyeWire launched with J Day. Celebrate with Double Points on Dec 10, 2014. Deets here. We’ve also added new and greater achievements for you to earn! Click your username to check it out.
A few flashback stats:
Since EyeWire launched, we’ve grown to over 165,000 players from 145 countries. Together, you have completed over 3.9 MILLION cubes.
In the past year alone, we’ve mapped 170 neurons!
We have a new All-Time Top Scoring Player (Nseraf) and 3 players with over 10M points (twister2, a5hm0r and Nseraf)
6 players have over 5M points and 58 players have joined the Millionaire’s Club!
Three players joined HQ (DannyS as a summer intern, Twister2 as a gamemaster and nkem as a visiting researcher/executive of epicness)
We published our first scientific finding in Nature, which you can read all about here. You helped discover how animals perceive motion. Awesomesauce.
EyeWire was featured in The New York Times, Popular Science, NPR and more. Over 200 articles in 30 languages have been written about EyeWire since we launched.
Neurons YOU mapped were featured in Times Square for an entire month! See pic below.
We’re curating the world’s first 3D printable neuron catalog with the NIH.
EyeWire teamed up with Visual.ly and FEI to create a Scale of the Brain Infographic
We won first place winner in the NSF’s National Visualization Challenge
Your discoveries, animated: check out gorgeous EyeWire neurons in this playlist.
EyeWire wouldn’t be what it is without you. We thank you wholeheartedly (or wholebrainedly) for making EyeWIre what it is.
To the Future
Here are a few things to look forward to in 2015
- More science discoveries (and likely finding new cell types) thanks to the Countdown to Neuropia
- Hot new in-game sounds.
- EyeWire Mobile! Yep. We’re actually working on it.
- API streams so that any dev anywhere can readily build bots, leaderboards, plugins and more.
- Neurons in Virtual Reality free and available to the public
- Better Scouting and Scythe tools
That’s all we’re allowed to talk about now 🙂
We look forward to making the next year’s discoveries with you! For Science!
EyeWire HQ
Shoutout to the Millionaires! Scores as of 12/9/2014 ar 11 pm US ET.
Nseraf 13121988
a5hm0r 10949629
twister2 10595056
galarun 7508164
susi 6167213
jinbean 6141690
jamiexq 4420493
iridium 4343972
tek50 3699880
rinda 3207836
MaraTara 3194784
aesanta1 3152823
lobusparietalis 3146529
aldof 3140823
sdunn61781 3034110
charleskoch 2923189
benficus 2472307
mamateresa 2456044
grizle 2445644
crazyman4865 2445040
sneakybaron 2386119
tiikerikani 2379699
jbinsc 2200166
marhav 2072377
Emeraldstar 2022825
ketta 2004001
nopasaran 1858290
LotteryDiscountz 1855692
damocles357 1851054
m7md 1643408
faunhaert 1640483
ronin 1619329
michellewooten 1607941
DannyS 1566102
sambob496 1529744
reb1618 1482435
dhill23 1482259
lopezlv 1460371
buco 1424425
Begonie 1402859
jax123 1382339
pkeoughan 1376784
carpwoman 1346264
vogon 1242173
b_hailey 1201733
Varppi 1194054
martinj 1166939
1sigor 1143503
eboyle23 1138915
lilmoo 1129389
toocajun 1121667
blackblues 1106409
mardim2 1081629
dereksims 1080150
dataminerstarr 1066817
lynnschlos 1062432
tunerk7 1045586
jcostantino 1017181