The word atlas
Every word, in the cell it addresses. The placement is not alphabetical or arbitrary: a Kohonen self-organising map is trained on Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2sentence embeddings over each level’s exact lattice, then a Hungarian optimal assignment decides which word sits where. Read across a row and the meaning drifts rather than jumps.
Level 1 · Region
5 km cells · 10 × 12 lattice · 120 words from landscape & water
dell · pass · glen · heath · knoll · key · lee · glade · spit · mouth · ford · waste · tor · saddle…
Grid neighbours are 1.23× more semantically similar than random pairs
Level 2 · Locality
250 m cells · 20 × 20 lattice · 400 words from materials, colour & texture
spruce · cedar · rosewood · cobble · balsa · brine · crumb · schist · saffron · chaff · wicker · nubby · linseed · jersey…
Grid neighbours are 1.29× more semantically similar than random pairs
Level 3 · Spot
12.5 m cells · 20 × 20 lattice · 400 words from living things
papaya · mango · guava · tulip · hibiscus · muskrat · meerkat · gecko · iguana · cobra · zebra · hippo · gorilla · macaque…
Grid neighbours are 1.32× more semantically similar than random pairs