The whole-graph radar view drew every node on concentric hop rings at
once — a hairball past a dozen nodes, its pan/zoom camera unable to fix
what was fundamentally overplotted. The atlas is now a graph walker:
* One node holds the focus (you, to open). The canvas draws only that
neighbourhood — focus centred, direct neighbours fanned around it,
braille edges coloured by SNR and faded by evidence age — and sizes
itself to the crowd, so a two-node link is a tight six rows while a
hub earns the full fan. The node the trail came from anchors due
west: walking reads as moving right, backing up as moving left.
* Beneath it the links list the same neighbours as selectable rows,
strongest first: glyph, name (palette hue, you in white), hash in the
shared hash widget, SNR with a quality bar, samples, source tags,
age, and how many links continue onward. The highlighted row's marker
lights white on the canvas.
* Enter walks (the breadcrumb trail grows across the top), ⌫ steps
back, walking into the trail-back row retraces instead of ping-pong
growing, Home refocuses you. Typing finds any node in the graph —
nearest first, islands flagged — and Enter teleports there, the
trail restarting since the walk never crossed the gap. ^R rebuilds
from storage and keeps whatever of the trail survives.
The per-node details dialog is gone (focusing a node is its details),
and the ring-relaxation layout service with it — the fan needs no
global relaxation. PgUp/PgDn page the highlight, dashboard-style.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Jean-Pierre MartineauandClaude Opus 4.8
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