bluebrain/brayns repository overview

One of the keys towards understanding how the brain works as a whole is visualisation of how the individual cells function. In particular, the more morphologically accurate the visualisation can be, the easier it is for experts in the biological field to validate cell structures; photo-realistic rendering is therefore important.

The Blue Brain Project has made major efforts to create morphologically accurate neurons to simulate sub-cellular and electrical activities, e.g. molecular simulations of neuron biochemistry or multi-scale simulations of neuronal function. Ray-tracing can help to highlight areas of the circuits where cells touch each other and where synapses are being created. In combination with ‘global illumination’, which uses light, shadow, and depth of field effects to simulate photo-realistic images, this technique makes it easier to visualise how the neurons function.

It provides an abstraction of the underlying rendering engines, so that the best possible acceleration libraries can be used for the relevant hardware. (https://github.com/BlueBrain/Brayns.git⁠).

Start brayns with: docker run -ti --rm -p 8200:8200 bluebrain/brayns

Check that it's running: http://localhost:8200/registry⁠

Use it together with its web UI (https://hub.docker.com/r/bluebrain/brayns-ui⁠) in your favourite web browser: http://localhost:8080/?host=localhost:8200⁠