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The Neural Map

Your memory is a place. The Neural Map lays every chronicle out as a point in space, and the shape that emerges is your memory's own structure.

A vault loading into the map: every arriving chronicle takes its place. Then we dive inside.

What you're looking at​

  • Every point is a chronicle, one memory.
  • Colors are spines, the nature of each memory (source code, a document, an emotion…), on the same palette as everywhere else in the OS.
  • The shape is grown. Chronicles wind into place in order, family by family, so each spine forms a visible band and the whole becomes a form you learn to read. Position carries meaning.

Moving through it​

Pan, zoom, and keep zooming: the map lets you dive inside the structure. Hover any point and its chronicle shows itself, with its title, spine and vault. What reads as a galaxy from outside is your actual memory up close.

Built for scale​

The map is GPU-accelerated. In its 3D mode it holds up to 100,000 nodes on screen, and a dedicated GPU (NVIDIA) is what carries that scale. On lighter machines the map caps itself and stays fluid: you choose the node budget with a slider, and the OS keeps your framerate.

The observatory​

The right rail opens the map's control panels. This is where the map becomes an instrument.

The Enneper minimal surface topology, with its parametric equations on screen Every topology shows its own mathematics: here the Enneper minimal surface, equations included.

  • Geometry: choose the topology your memory winds onto. Möbius Strip, Klein Bottle, Lorenz Attractor, Double Helix, Toroidal Ring, Logarithmic Seashell, Enneper Surface, Clifford Torus… Each comes with its equations and a one-line character, and Graph Expansion stretches or tightens the whole form. The full catalogue, equations included, has its own page.
  • Density: two dials. How willing points are to link up (from 5% dense to 99% strict), and how many nodes get drawn at all. The capture below is holding 94,050 nodes and 10,739 links.
  • Motion: the map is alive on purpose. Comet speed, 3D auto-orbit, breathing rate.
  • Render & data: the 3D WebGL engine (beta) and its lenses: cross-vault links only, group by spine, group by vault, infinite depth.
  • Graph presets: a composition you like (topology + density + motion) saves under a name and comes back in one click.
  • Filters: light up only the spines or the origin vaults you care about, with live counts per vault.

The Geometry panel: topology and graph expansion Geometry: the topology, and how far it expands.

The topology catalogue open The catalogue: memory wound onto mathematics.

The Density panel at 94,050 nodes Density: 94,050 nodes on screen, 10,739 links.

The Motion panel Motion: comet speed, auto-orbit, breathing.

The Render & data panel Render & data: the WebGL engine and its lenses.

The Graph presets panel Graph presets: save a composition, recall it in one click.

It lives​

The map rebuilds as your memory grows. Feed a vault and watch the new chronicles take their place. The sequence above is exactly that: a vault ingesting, live.

Where next: Chronicles & spines for what the points are, Vaults for the domains that feed them.