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an ascii atlas of everything, in seven plates. each one zooms out roughly a thousandfold. every figure is drawn by a small ruby script from real catalogs and real math — logarithmic spirals, supergalactic coordinate rotations, a zel’dovich pancake simulation, a numerically integrated friedmann equation. no images. text over TLS, all the way down.
state of knowledge: september 2026. planet positions are computed for 2026-09-04, the day the atlas was drawn.
plate 5 — the observable universe
sources
the numbers come from the literature, not from vibes:
planck 2018 results (cosmological parameters)
DESI DR2: BAO and evolving dark energy
tully et al. 2014: the laniakea supercluster
dupuy & courtois 2024: basins of attraction in cosmicflows-4
sawala et al. 2025: no certain fate for the milky way
naidu et al. 2025: MoM-z14, a luminous galaxy at z=14.4
gravity collaboration: the distance to sgr A*
reid et al. 2019: parallaxes and the spiral structure of the galaxy
mcconnachie 2012: the observed properties of local group dwarfs