The colophon

The Real Brain

From a human mind

Every part of this site was imagined, designed, and developed by Bryan Houlihan-Johnson: the concept, the look, the real-time brain, and the code that runs it. Tools and AI assisted along the way, but the vision, the taste, and the decisions are human.

The stack

Next.jsApp Router, React Server Components.
ReactUI and the client islands.
React Three Fiber + Three.jsThe real-time brain scene.
WebGPURenderer, with a WebGL2 fallback for reliability.
TypeScriptTyped end to end.
Tailwind CSSStyling system.
LenisSmooth, scroll-driven camera.

Assets & attribution

Brain modelPoly by Google · CC BY 3.0
FrauncesDisplay typeface (Google Fonts).
Film grain, reels, beams & postCustom-built for this site.