The word “VEXEL” is currently used to refer to a type of raster art designed to resemble vector graphics. It is more of an informal term used to describe a design criteria for certain images and does not appear frequently in common usage. The word itself can therefore be appropriated for an unrelated field, that of a novel neural network design, specifically, the computational units for a parallel processing paradigm, referred to as “VEXEL units”. The term is chosen to indicate the troublesome nature of both modern neural networks as are currently used for large language models and other AI generative purposes, as well as the difficulties associated with providing a rich connectivity paradigm using sparse calculations.