> I too love the idea of there being filaments of matter connecting distant galaxies. I can only imagine the artistic renderings will make the universe look li

> I too love the idea of there being filaments of matter connecting distant galaxies. I can only imagine the artistic renderings will make the universe look like a neural network. There are lots of "cosmic web" renderings from large-scale cosmological simulations of dark mater and the formation of structure in the universe. A major one, now over a decade old is the "Millennium Simulation": http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/ http://wwwmpa.mpa-garching.mpg.de/galform/millennium/