Explore the Multiverse.

the map live dark hole population gate open population gate closed lane open bypass lane closed a confirmed delivery, just now two lanes, one each way wrap-around one creature, coloured by species an egg no species record on camera

effective lanes recomputed here from what the relay broadcasts, for display

worlds the detail behind every cell — speed is how fast that world says it is running and, after the arrow, how fast it actually ran; pace is arrivals queued over the cap they wait behind, per simulated minute of that world

totals

species alive right now Every species any world is reporting in its census, joined across the map, drawn against TIME — a bar runs from the first crossing this archive recorded of that species to the last, or to the right-hand edge while it is still alive. It is the span of the RECORD and not a lifespan. A species that used to live here and does not now is not a row of its own: it is drawn only where two living lines part at it. The ancestry is what the migration record shows — when a creature crosses, the world it left names its species and that species’ parent species, and this is one generation of that per crossing, chained. So a lineage that has never crossed a lane has nothing here to connect it — that is stated per species, never guessed. A run of extinct ancestors with no living branch on it collapses to one dotted edge, drawn across the stretch of time it held the line and labelled with how many generations that was. Nothing here is resolved against any world’s own registry — this is what the record says.

alive — a leaf, or a living ancestor; the glyph’s colour is the species and nothing else here is coloured an ancestor alive nowhere that is reporting a bar — first recorded crossing → last, or → now while alive descended from — the bracket in the name column, and the line dropping onto a bar where the record first names that species the clock along the top — left is older, the right-hand edge is now hover a row, or tab to it — everything not in its family dims +n — extinct generations collapsed, drawn across the stretch they held the line; the number is there because a count is not recoverable from a duration recorded before its parent — the link runs backwards to where the child's own record starts brain size — bigger ring, more neurons and synapses than the other rows drawn; the newest genome of it this archive ever read, which for an extinct line may be days old — hover one for the numbers and its age where it lives, on the map’s own grid the 24 h line — its population across the map click a row — or tab to it and press Enter — for its worlds, its record and its parent

median synapses — per genome, in each slice of time median hidden neurons — the count ABOVE the fixed 48 every brain is born with the shaded band — the middle half of the genomes in that slice, a quarter above the line and a quarter below each graph uses its own visible minimum and maximum, printed beside the line how much of it was measured — taller is more of that slice’s genomes read, on a square-root scale, and never shorter than the amber tick for none of them a break in a line is a gap, never a zero a washed stretch is waiting, never empty

what the map itself is running with The relay’s own configuration, as it publishes it on every broadcast: the ceilings every world here is measured against and the oldest helper version this map admits. Everything else on this tab is what a world SAYS about itself; these two are the relay’s own numbers, so they are authoritative — and a map that publishes no ceilings at all is unknown, never a map without any.

what each world was told to do Read-only. This page renders what each world reports about its own configuration and offers no way to change any of it; a control surface is separate, later work. A field no world has told us shows ? — never the value the game ships with.