diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 8b861e7..d9b2515 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
 
+[features]
+visualization = ["dep:image", "dep:viuer"]
+
 [dependencies]
 boxed-array = "0.1.0"
 nalgebra = { version = "^0.32", features = ["std", "macros", "rand", "serde-serialize"] }
@@ -14,6 +17,8 @@ num = "^0.4"
 rand = "^0.8"
 rand_distr = "0.4.3"
 textplots = "0.8.0"
+image = { version = "0.24.6", optional = true }
+viuer = { version = "0.6.2", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 image = "0.24.6"
@@ -24,3 +29,15 @@ approx = "0.5.1"
 
 [profile.release]
 debug = true
+
+[[example]]
+name = "densenet"
+required-features = ["visualization"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "mnist-decoder"
+required-features = ["visualization"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "mnist-diffusion"
+required-features = ["visualization"]
diff --git a/examples/densenet.rs b/examples/densenet.rs
index 9e41e46..3bcfdd8 100644
--- a/examples/densenet.rs
+++ b/examples/densenet.rs
@@ -51,16 +51,16 @@ fn main() {
                 &test_inputs,
             );
 
-            draw_neuron_activation(
+            neuramethyst::draw_neuron_activation(
                 |input| {
-                    let output = network.eval(&dvector![input[0] as f32, input[1] as f32]);
+                    let output = network.eval(&dvector![input[0], input[1]]);
                     let estimation = output[0] / (output[0] + output[1]);
 
-                    let color = network.eval(&dvector![input[0] as f32, input[1] as f32]);
+                    let color = network.eval(&dvector![input[0], input[1]]);
 
                     (&color / color.map(|x| x * x).sum() * estimation)
                         .into_iter()
-                        .map(|x| x.abs() as f64)
+                        .map(|x| x.abs() as f32)
                         .collect::<Vec<_>>()
                 },
                 6.0,
@@ -96,42 +96,6 @@ fn main() {
     }
 }
 
-// TODO: move this to the library?
-fn draw_neuron_activation<F: Fn([f64; 2]) -> Vec<f64>>(callback: F, scale: f64) {
-    use viuer::Config;
-
-    const WIDTH: u32 = 64;
-    const HEIGHT: u32 = 64;
-
-    let mut image = image::RgbImage::new(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
-
-    fn sigmoid(x: f64) -> f64 {
-        1.9 / (1.0 + (-x * 3.0).exp()) - 0.9
-    }
-
-    for y in 0..HEIGHT {
-        let y2 = 2.0 * y as f64 / HEIGHT as f64 - 1.0;
-        for x in 0..WIDTH {
-            let x2 = 2.0 * x as f64 / WIDTH as f64 - 1.0;
-            let activation = callback([x2 * scale, y2 * scale]);
-            let r = (sigmoid(activation.get(0).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
-            let g = (sigmoid(activation.get(1).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
-            let b = (sigmoid(activation.get(2).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
-
-            *image.get_pixel_mut(x, y) = image::Rgb([r, g, b]);
-        }
-    }
-
-    let config = Config {
-        use_kitty: false,
-        truecolor: true,
-        // absolute_offset: false,
-        ..Default::default()
-    };
-
-    viuer::print(&image::DynamicImage::ImageRgb8(image), &config).unwrap();
-}
-
 fn one_hot(value: usize, categories: usize) -> DVector<f32> {
     let mut res = DVector::from_element(categories, 0.0);
     if value < categories {
diff --git a/examples/mnist-decoder.rs b/examples/mnist-decoder.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d59b5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/mnist-decoder.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,144 @@
+use nalgebra::DVector;
+use rust_mnist::Mnist;
+
+use neuramethyst::{
+    argmax, cycle_shuffling,
+    derivable::{
+        activation::{Linear, Logistic, Relu, Swish, Tanh},
+        loss::{CrossEntropy, Euclidean},
+    },
+    plot_losses,
+    prelude::*,
+};
+
+const TRAIN_SIZE: usize = 50000;
+const TEST_SIZE: usize = 1000;
+const WIDTH: usize = 28;
+const HEIGHT: usize = 28;
+const LATENT_SIZE: usize = 25;
+
+pub fn main() {
+    let Mnist {
+        train_data: train_images,
+        train_labels,
+        test_data: test_images,
+        test_labels,
+        ..
+    } = Mnist::new("data/");
+
+    let train_images = train_images
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|raw| {
+            DVector::from_iterator(WIDTH * HEIGHT, raw.into_iter().map(|x| x as f32 / 255.0))
+        })
+        .take(TRAIN_SIZE);
+    let train_labels = train_labels
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|x| one_hot(x as usize, 10))
+        .take(TRAIN_SIZE);
+
+    let test_images = test_images
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|raw| {
+            DVector::from_iterator(WIDTH * HEIGHT, raw.into_iter().map(|x| x as f32 / 255.0))
+        })
+        .take(TEST_SIZE);
+    let test_labels = test_labels
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|x| one_hot(x as usize, 10))
+        .take(TEST_SIZE);
+
+    let test_data = test_images
+        .clone()
+        .zip(test_images.clone())
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+    // First, train an encoder-decoder network (unsupervised)
+
+    let mut network = neura_sequential![
+        neura_layer!("dense", 100).activation(Swish(Logistic)),
+        neura_layer!("dense", 50).activation(Swish(Logistic)),
+        neura_layer!("dense", LATENT_SIZE).activation(Tanh),
+        neura_layer!("dense", 50),
+        neura_layer!("dense", 100),
+        neura_layer!("dense", WIDTH * HEIGHT).activation(Relu),
+    ]
+    .construct(NeuraShape::Vector(WIDTH * HEIGHT))
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let trainer = NeuraBatchedTrainer::with_epochs(0.03, 75, 512, TRAIN_SIZE);
+    // trainer.log_iterations = 1;
+
+    let losses = trainer.train(
+        &NeuraBackprop::new(Euclidean),
+        &mut network,
+        cycle_shuffling(
+            train_images.clone().zip(train_images.clone()),
+            rand::thread_rng(),
+        ),
+        &test_data,
+    );
+
+    plot_losses(losses, 128, 48);
+
+    // Then, train a small network to decode the encoded data into the categories
+
+    let trimmed_network = network.clone().trim_tail().trim_tail().trim_tail();
+
+    let mut network = neura_sequential![
+        ..trimmed_network.lock(),
+        neura_layer!("dense", LATENT_SIZE)
+            .activation(Tanh)
+            .construct(NeuraShape::Vector(LATENT_SIZE))
+            .unwrap(),
+        neura_layer!("dense", 10)
+            .activation(Linear)
+            .construct(NeuraShape::Vector(LATENT_SIZE))
+            .unwrap(),
+        neura_layer!("softmax")
+    ];
+    let test_data = test_images
+        .clone()
+        .zip(test_labels.clone())
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+
+    let trainer = NeuraBatchedTrainer::with_epochs(0.03, 20, 128, TRAIN_SIZE);
+
+    plot_losses(
+        trainer.train(
+            &NeuraBackprop::new(Euclidean),
+            &mut network,
+            cycle_shuffling(train_images.clone().zip(train_labels), rand::thread_rng()),
+            &test_data,
+        ),
+        128,
+        48,
+    );
+
+    let mut correct = 0;
+    for (test_image, test_label) in test_images.zip(test_labels) {
+        let guess = network.eval(&test_image);
+        let guess = argmax(guess.as_slice());
+        let actual = argmax(test_label.as_slice());
+
+        if guess == actual {
+            correct += 1;
+        }
+    }
+
+    println!("");
+    println!(
+        "{} correct out of {}: {:.2}%",
+        correct,
+        TEST_SIZE,
+        (correct as f32 / TEST_SIZE as f32) * 100.0
+    );
+}
+
+fn one_hot(value: usize, categories: usize) -> DVector<f32> {
+    let mut res = DVector::from_element(categories, 0.0);
+    if value < categories {
+        res[value] = 1.0;
+    }
+    res
+}
diff --git a/examples/mnist-diffusion.rs b/examples/mnist-diffusion.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b7b062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/mnist-diffusion.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,213 @@
+use nalgebra::DVector;
+use rand::Rng;
+use rust_mnist::Mnist;
+use std::io::Write;
+
+use neuramethyst::{
+    cycle_shuffling,
+    derivable::{
+        activation::{Logistic, Relu, Swish},
+        loss::Euclidean,
+        regularize::NeuraL2,
+    },
+    plot_losses,
+    prelude::*,
+};
+
+const TRAIN_SIZE: usize = 50000;
+const TEST_SIZE: usize = 1000;
+const WIDTH: usize = 28;
+const HEIGHT: usize = 28;
+const REG_RATE: f32 = 0.003;
+const EPOCHS: usize = 80;
+
+// const BASE_NOISE: f32 = 0.05;
+const NOISE_AMOUNT: f32 = 0.5;
+const SHIFT_AMOUNT: i32 = 9;
+
+pub fn main() {
+    let Mnist {
+        train_data: train_images,
+        train_labels,
+        test_data: test_images,
+        test_labels,
+        ..
+    } = Mnist::new("data/");
+
+    let train_images = train_images
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|raw| {
+            DVector::from_iterator(WIDTH * HEIGHT, raw.into_iter().map(|x| x as f32 / 255.0))
+        })
+        .take(TRAIN_SIZE);
+    let train_labels = train_labels
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|x| one_hot(x as usize, 10))
+        .take(TRAIN_SIZE);
+
+    let test_images = test_images
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|raw| {
+            DVector::from_iterator(WIDTH * HEIGHT, raw.into_iter().map(|x| x as f32 / 255.0))
+        })
+        .take(TEST_SIZE);
+    let test_labels = test_labels
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|x| one_hot(x as usize, 10))
+        .take(TEST_SIZE);
+
+    let test_data: Vec<_> = augment_data(test_images.zip(test_labels)).collect();
+
+    let mut network = neura_residual![
+        <= 0, 1;
+        neura_layer!("isolate", WIDTH * HEIGHT, WIDTH * HEIGHT + 10) => 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10;
+        neura_layer!("isolate", 0, WIDTH * HEIGHT) => 0, 1, 3;
+        neura_layer!("dense", 100).regularization(NeuraL2(REG_RATE)).activation(Swish(Logistic)) => 0, 2;
+        neura_layer!("dropout", 0.5);
+        neura_layer!("dense", 50).regularization(NeuraL2(REG_RATE)).activation(Swish(Logistic)) => 0, 2, 4;
+        neura_layer!("dropout", 0.5);
+        neura_layer!("dense", 50).regularization(NeuraL2(REG_RATE)).activation(Swish(Logistic)) => 0, 2;
+        neura_layer!("dropout", 0.33);
+        neura_layer!("dense", 25).regularization(NeuraL2(REG_RATE)).activation(Swish(Logistic)) => 0, 2;
+        neura_layer!("dropout", 0.33);
+        neura_layer!("dense", 25).regularization(NeuraL2(REG_RATE)).activation(Swish(Logistic));
+        // neura_layer!("dropout", 0.33);
+        neura_layer!("dense", WIDTH * HEIGHT).activation(Relu);
+    ]
+    .construct(NeuraShape::Vector(WIDTH * HEIGHT + 10))
+    .unwrap();
+
+    let trainer = NeuraBatchedTrainer::with_epochs(0.03, EPOCHS, 512, TRAIN_SIZE);
+    // trainer.log_iterations = 1;
+    let train_data = augment_data(cycle_shuffling(
+        train_images.clone().zip(train_labels.clone()),
+        rand::thread_rng(),
+    ));
+
+    let losses = trainer.train(
+        &NeuraBackprop::new(Euclidean),
+        &mut network,
+        train_data,
+        &test_data,
+    );
+    plot_losses(losses, 128, 48);
+
+    loop {
+        let mut image = uniform_vector(WIDTH * HEIGHT + 10);
+        let mut buffer = String::new();
+        print!("> ");
+        std::io::stdout().flush().unwrap();
+        if let Err(_) = std::io::stdin().read_line(&mut buffer) {
+            break;
+        }
+
+        for i in 0..10 {
+            image[WIDTH * HEIGHT + i] = buffer
+                .chars()
+                .any(|c| c == char::from_digit(i as u32, 10).unwrap())
+                as u8 as f32;
+        }
+
+        for _iter in 0..5 {
+            let new_image = network.eval(&image);
+
+            neuramethyst::draw_neuron_activation(
+                |[x, y]| {
+                    let x = ((x + 1.0) / 2.0 * WIDTH as f32) as usize;
+                    let y = ((y + 1.0) / 2.0 * HEIGHT as f32) as usize;
+
+                    let index = x + y * WIDTH;
+
+                    vec![new_image[index]]
+                },
+                1.0,
+                WIDTH as u32,
+                HEIGHT as u32,
+            );
+
+            for i in 0..(WIDTH * HEIGHT) {
+                image[i] = new_image[i] * 0.6 + image[i] * 0.3;
+            }
+
+            std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::new(0, 100_000_000));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn uniform_vector(length: usize) -> DVector<f32> {
+    let mut res = DVector::from_element(length, 0.0);
+    let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
+
+    for i in 0..length {
+        res[i] = rng.gen();
+    }
+
+    res
+}
+
+fn one_hot(value: usize, categories: usize) -> DVector<f32> {
+    let mut res = DVector::from_element(categories, 0.0);
+    if value < categories {
+        res[value] = 1.0;
+    }
+    res
+}
+
+fn add_noise(mut image: DVector<f32>, rng: &mut impl Rng, amount: f32) -> DVector<f32> {
+    if amount <= 0.0 {
+        return image;
+    }
+
+    let uniform = rand::distributions::Uniform::new(0.0, amount);
+
+    for i in 0..image.len() {
+        let x = rng.sample(uniform);
+        image[i] = image[i] * (1.0 - x) + (1.0 - image[i]) * x;
+    }
+
+    image
+}
+
+fn shift(image: &DVector<f32>, dx: i32, dy: i32) -> DVector<f32> {
+    let mut res = DVector::from_element(image.len(), 0.0);
+    let width = WIDTH as i32;
+    let height = HEIGHT as i32;
+
+    for y in 0..height {
+        for x in 0..width {
+            let x2 = x + dx;
+            let y2 = y + dy;
+            if y2 < 0 || y2 >= height || x2 < 0 || x2 >= width {
+                continue;
+            }
+            res[(y2 * width + x2) as usize] = image[(y * width + x) as usize];
+        }
+    }
+
+    res
+}
+
+fn augment_data(
+    iter: impl Iterator<Item = (DVector<f32>, DVector<f32>)>,
+) -> impl Iterator<Item = (DVector<f32>, DVector<f32>)> {
+    let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
+    iter.map(move |(image, label)| {
+        let noise_amount = rng.gen_range(0.05..NOISE_AMOUNT);
+        let base_image = shift(
+            &image,
+            rng.gen_range(-SHIFT_AMOUNT..SHIFT_AMOUNT),
+            rng.gen_range(-SHIFT_AMOUNT..SHIFT_AMOUNT),
+        ) * rng.gen_range(0.6..1.0);
+        // let base_image = add_noise(base_image, &mut rng, base_noise);
+
+        let noisy_image = add_noise(base_image.clone(), &mut rng, noise_amount);
+
+        (
+            DVector::from_iterator(
+                WIDTH * HEIGHT + 10,
+                noisy_image.iter().copied().chain(label.iter().copied()),
+            ),
+            image,
+        )
+    })
+}
diff --git a/src/layer/isolate.rs b/src/layer/isolate.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..049bec5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/layer/isolate.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+use nalgebra::{DVector, Scalar};
+
+use super::*;
+
+/// **Class invariant:** start and end are
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub struct NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    start: NeuraShape,
+    end: NeuraShape,
+}
+
+#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
+pub enum NeuraIsolateLayerErr {
+    Incompatible {
+        start: NeuraShape,
+        end: NeuraShape,
+        input_shape: NeuraShape,
+    },
+    OutOfBound {
+        start: NeuraShape,
+        end: NeuraShape,
+        input_shape: NeuraShape,
+    },
+    OutOfOrder {
+        start: NeuraShape,
+        end: NeuraShape,
+    },
+}
+
+impl NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    pub fn new<T: Into<NeuraShape>>(start: T, end: T) -> Option<Self> {
+        let start = start.into();
+        let end = end.into();
+
+        if start.is_compatible(end) {
+            Some(Self { start, end })
+        } else {
+            None
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl NeuraShapedLayer for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    fn output_shape(&self) -> NeuraShape {
+        self.end.sub(self.start).unwrap_or_else(|| unreachable!())
+    }
+}
+
+impl NeuraPartialLayer for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    type Constructed = NeuraIsolateLayer;
+    type Err = NeuraIsolateLayerErr;
+
+    fn construct(self, input_shape: NeuraShape) -> Result<Self::Constructed, Self::Err> {
+        use NeuraShape::*;
+        let start = self.start;
+        let end = self.end;
+
+        match (input_shape, start, end) {
+            (Vector(xi), Vector(xs), Vector(xe)) => {
+                if xs >= xe {
+                    return Err(NeuraIsolateLayerErr::OutOfOrder { start, end });
+                }
+
+                if xs >= xi || xe > xi {
+                    return Err(NeuraIsolateLayerErr::OutOfBound {
+                        start,
+                        end,
+                        input_shape,
+                    });
+                }
+
+                Ok(self)
+            }
+
+            (Matrix(_xi, _yi), Matrix(_xs, _ys), Matrix(_xe, _ye)) => unimplemented!(),
+            (Tensor(_xi, _yi, _zi), Tensor(_xs, _ys, _zs), Tensor(_xe, _ye, _ze)) => {
+                unimplemented!()
+            }
+
+            _ => Err(NeuraIsolateLayerErr::Incompatible {
+                start,
+                end,
+                input_shape,
+            }),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl<F: Clone + Scalar> NeuraLayer<DVector<F>> for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    type Output = DVector<F>;
+
+    fn eval(&self, input: &DVector<F>) -> Self::Output {
+        let (NeuraShape::Vector(start), NeuraShape::Vector(end)) = (self.start, self.end) else {
+            panic!("NeuraIsolateLayer expected a value of dimension {}, got a vector", self.start.dims());
+        };
+
+        DVector::from_iterator(end - start, input.iter().cloned().skip(start).take(end))
+    }
+}
+
+impl NeuraTrainableLayerBase for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    type Gradient = ();
+
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn default_gradient(&self) -> Self::Gradient {
+        ()
+    }
+
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn apply_gradient(&mut self, _gradient: &Self::Gradient) {
+        // Noop
+    }
+}
+
+impl<F: Clone + Scalar> NeuraTrainableLayerEval<DVector<F>> for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    type IntermediaryRepr = ();
+
+    fn eval_training(&self, input: &DVector<F>) -> (Self::Output, Self::IntermediaryRepr) {
+        (self.eval(input), ())
+    }
+}
+
+impl<Input> NeuraTrainableLayerSelf<Input> for NeuraIsolateLayer
+where
+    Self: NeuraTrainableLayerEval<Input>,
+{
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn regularize_layer(&self) -> Self::Gradient {
+        ()
+    }
+
+    #[inline(always)]
+    fn get_gradient(
+        &self,
+        _input: &Input,
+        _intermediary: &Self::IntermediaryRepr,
+        _epsilon: &Self::Output,
+    ) -> Self::Gradient {
+        ()
+    }
+}
+
+impl<F: Clone + Scalar + Default> NeuraTrainableLayerBackprop<DVector<F>> for NeuraIsolateLayer {
+    fn backprop_layer(
+        &self,
+        input: &DVector<F>,
+        _intermediary: &Self::IntermediaryRepr,
+        epsilon: &Self::Output,
+    ) -> DVector<F> {
+        let mut result = DVector::from_element(input.len(), F::default());
+        let NeuraShape::Vector(start) = self.start else {
+            unreachable!();
+        };
+
+        for i in 0..epsilon.len() {
+            result[start + i] = epsilon[i].clone();
+        }
+
+        result
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/layer/mod.rs b/src/layer/mod.rs
index 43f38d7..9dd6547 100644
--- a/src/layer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/layer/mod.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ use self::lock::NeuraLockLayer;
 
 pub mod dense;
 pub mod dropout;
+pub mod isolate;
 pub mod lock;
 pub mod normalize;
 pub mod softmax;
@@ -23,6 +24,55 @@ impl NeuraShape {
             NeuraShape::Tensor(rows, columns, channels) => rows * columns * channels,
         }
     }
+
+    pub fn sub(&self, other: NeuraShape) -> Option<NeuraShape> {
+        use NeuraShape::*;
+
+        Some(match (other, self) {
+            (Vector(x1), Vector(x2)) => Vector(x2 - x1),
+            (Matrix(x1, y1), Matrix(x2, y2)) => Matrix(x2 - x1, y2 - y1),
+            (Tensor(x1, y1, z1), Tensor(x2, y2, z2)) => Tensor(x2 - x1, y2 - y1, z2 - z1),
+
+            _ => return None,
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub fn is_compatible(&self, other: NeuraShape) -> bool {
+        use NeuraShape::*;
+
+        matches!(
+            (self, other),
+            (Vector(_), Vector(_))
+                | (Matrix(_, _), Matrix(_, _))
+                | (Tensor(_, _, _), Tensor(_, _, _))
+        )
+    }
+
+    pub fn dims(&self) -> usize {
+        match self {
+            NeuraShape::Vector(_) => 1,
+            NeuraShape::Matrix(_, _) => 2,
+            NeuraShape::Tensor(_, _, _) => 3,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<usize> for NeuraShape {
+    fn from(x: usize) -> Self {
+        NeuraShape::Vector(x)
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<(usize, usize)> for NeuraShape {
+    fn from((x, y): (usize, usize)) -> Self {
+        NeuraShape::Matrix(x, y)
+    }
+}
+
+impl From<(usize, usize, usize)> for NeuraShape {
+    fn from((x, y, z): (usize, usize, usize)) -> Self {
+        NeuraShape::Tensor(x, y, z)
+    }
 }
 
 pub trait NeuraLayer<Input> {
@@ -217,4 +267,8 @@ macro_rules! neura_layer {
     ( "normalize" ) => {
         $crate::layer::normalize::NeuraNormalizeLayer::new()
     };
+
+    ( "isolate", $start:expr, $end:expr ) => {
+        $crate::layer::isolate::NeuraIsolateLayer::new($start, $end).unwrap()
+    };
 }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 0eeb5b2..201c9c9 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ mod utils;
 // TODO: move to a different file
 pub use utils::{argmax, cycle_shuffling, one_hot, plot_losses};
 
+#[cfg(feature = "visualization")]
+pub use utils::draw_neuron_activation;
+
 /// Common traits and structs that are useful to use this library.
 /// All of these traits are prefixed with the word "neura" in some way,
 /// so there should not be any conflicts when doing a wildcard import of `prelude`.
diff --git a/src/network/residual/wrapper.rs b/src/network/residual/wrapper.rs
index a0df715..f3cdc7e 100644
--- a/src/network/residual/wrapper.rs
+++ b/src/network/residual/wrapper.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 
-use crate::{network::*, utils::unwrap_or_clone};
+use crate::network::*;
 
 use super::*;
 
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index 9b2191d..259c65e 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ pub(crate) fn uniform_vector(length: usize) -> nalgebra::DVector<f64> {
     DVector::from_fn(length, |_, _| -> f64 { rng.gen() })
 }
 
+#[deprecated]
 pub fn one_hot<const N: usize>(value: usize) -> NeuraVector<N, f64> {
     let mut res = NeuraVector::default();
     if value < N {
@@ -154,3 +155,41 @@ pub(crate) fn unwrap_or_clone<T: Clone>(value: std::rc::Rc<T>) -> T {
     // TODO: replace with Rc::unwrap_or_clone once https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/93610 is closed
     std::rc::Rc::try_unwrap(value).unwrap_or_else(|value| (*value).clone())
 }
+
+#[cfg(feature = "visualization")]
+pub fn draw_neuron_activation<F: Fn([f32; 2]) -> Vec<f32>>(
+    callback: F,
+    scale: f32,
+    width: u32,
+    height: u32,
+) {
+    use viuer::Config;
+
+    let mut image = image::RgbImage::new(width, height);
+
+    fn sigmoid(x: f32) -> f32 {
+        1.9 / (1.0 + (-x * 3.0).exp()) - 0.9
+    }
+
+    for y in 0..height {
+        let y2 = 2.0 * y as f32 / height as f32 - 1.0;
+        for x in 0..width {
+            let x2 = 2.0 * x as f32 / width as f32 - 1.0;
+            let activation = callback([x2 * scale, y2 * scale]);
+            let r = (sigmoid(activation.get(0).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
+            let g = (sigmoid(activation.get(1).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
+            let b = (sigmoid(activation.get(2).copied().unwrap_or(-1.0)) * 255.0).floor() as u8;
+
+            *image.get_pixel_mut(x, y) = image::Rgb([r, g, b]);
+        }
+    }
+
+    let config = Config {
+        use_kitty: false,
+        truecolor: true,
+        // absolute_offset: false,
+        ..Default::default()
+    };
+
+    viuer::print(&image::DynamicImage::ImageRgb8(image), &config).unwrap();
+}