Abstraction Atlas

A geography of recurring structures across human knowledge.

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Find an abstraction

Lens Reveal relationships

Expansion strength 1.0 Expansion pacing 5.0 Label density 2.0 Center focus 10.0 Label fade 0.75 s Label movement 0.75 s

The poster renders the whole atlas at print resolution in your browser and saves a PNG. Names are placed so that none overlap; a 24 × 36 in sheet fits about 830 of them, with every territory listed in the index beneath the map. A 600 dpi sheet is four times the pixels and takes about twenty seconds.

Poster size Resolution

After activating the map, use the arrow keys to pan, Shift with an arrow to pan farther, plus and minus to zoom, and zero for the whole atlas.

Continents zoom 1.00× · space 1.00× · detail 1.00× scroll or +/− to zoom · drag or arrows to travel · select to inspect

Assembling the conceptual terrain…

Reading the map

From continents to concepts

A relation-aware overview

At the widest view, neighboring territories form continents. Zoom in to reveal semantic regions, then individual abstractions. All distances expand in proportion, preserving the shape of the geography.

Far view: Continents
Middle view: Named conceptual regions
Near view: Abstractions and typed relations

Continent boundaries and names are exploratory, not claims that human knowledge has one authoritative partition.