Quantal Release Statistics: 2D Synapse Model
Interactive 2D model of quantal synaptic transmission: fire trials across a fixed set of release sites, watch the binomial vesicle-release histogram build peak by peak, and see live quantal analysis recover the true release-site count N and release probability p from the mean and variance of the trials.
This 2D counterpart strips the neuromuscular junction down to its core statistics: a fixed grid of N release sites, each an independent coin flip with probability p on every trial. Firing a trial genuinely runs N separate Bernoulli draws, sums the released quanta into an end-plate-potential amplitude, and animates the fusing sites and released transmitter live. Run many trials and the running histogram builds the classic multi-peaked quantal distribution in real time — while a live quantal-analysis panel recovers the true N and p purely from the mean and variance of the trials, exactly as del Castillo and Katz first inferred synaptic quantal content from statistics alone.
Fire an action potential to see quantal neurotransmitter release at a neuromuscular junction, affecting muscle fiber firing.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install