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Weekly update on my work: simulation progress, observations, and next steps.

Lab notes — Week of 2026-02-01

· lab-notes · simulation · peripheral-nerve

This is the first Lab notes post. The goal of this section is to track our work (not field-wide news).

Progress

  • Built the peripheral nerve cross-section sandbox (v0): electrode placement, pulse visualization, zoom/pan, export/import.

Observations

  • The most useful features so far are the ones that make geometry tangible: contacts, scale, and thresholded activation.

Open questions

  • What should the first “real” selectivity metric be for nerve cross-sections?
  • How should we represent axon orientation / recruitment beyond a scalar field proxy?

Plan for next week

  • Add cuff contact configuration (choose active contacts, rotation, multipolar patterns).
  • Add fascicle layout presets.
  • Add a simple selectivity metric panel.