1,755 marks from 69 documents and the author: 26 independent works, 7 personal investigations, 36 course references, and one anchor for the author. Every mark is a link into a passage.
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Start with the largest independent work.
The Five Shall Paragraphs holds 68 sections, the most of any independent work here, inside the drawn circle, 18° from its centre to its rim. Every section is a mark and every mark opens its passage, not the front of the piece: try Materiality in Planning and Performing an Audit, lit beside its name.
1,746 of the 1,755 marks are headings somebody typed into a document; 8 are whole tools, placed as one mark each, and a tool opens the tool; 1 is the author's own anchor, at the north pole, an entry by the same rule as every document. A mark's area is apportioned from its document's measured word count by the share of the document's text under that heading, so a big mark is a long section by that rule and not a count of its own. Nothing is sampled and nothing is capped.
02/ 06
Two essays share a vocabulary.
Predictive History: the withdrawn first edition and The Trillion-Dollar Vintage are the closest pair on this sphere in the only sense it records: 5 headings appear in these two documents and nowhere else, more than any other pair here. Their centroids sit 40° apart, and the arc between them is drawn.
Rather than being drawn twice, each of those 5 headings is placed once, at the midpoint of the two: none sits more than 5° off the halfway mark, the rest of the scatter being the same jitter every mark gets. Position is the only record of the overlap. There are no lines in this data, only places, and the arc here is a ruler rather than a link.
03/ 06
The coursework is the continent.
AFM 291 Key Takeaways holds 91 sections, more than any other document here, and its circle is drawn at the radius it was measured at: 21°. Around it runs the course shelf, 984 marks from 36 documents, the reading that underwrites the rest.
A document's area grows with what it holds, so the same circle around a short piece would be small. It also means areas run into each other: 1 marks from 1 other documents sit inside this one's circle. The sphere has two dimensions and the corpus does not, so overlap is the price, and it is shown rather than hidden.
04/ 06
Where the encoding strains.
1 headings are carried by 8 documents at once, the AFM 291 chapter template: Retrieval Practice, and the rest of the scaffolding every chapter is built on.
Averaging 8 positions strands them between 25° and 108° from the chapters that use them, which is to say nowhere near any of them. The dotted lines run to those 8 chapters and are the only lines on this sphere: they measure a distance rather than assert a link. This is the honest failure of the method, and it is left visible.
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North is the independent work.
The hairline is the parallel at 18°N. Above it sit 623 marks, and 622 of them are independent work: writing chosen, scoped and finished without a course asking for it; 1 at the pole is the author's own anchor.
The line misses in both directions, and both are drawn. 0 marks above it are ringed, because they come from 0 documents that are not independent. Another -1 independent marks sit below it. The zone is designed, not inherited: each origin owns the zone of latitude whose area is its share of the sections, every document's disc is held inside its zone, and the only mark that could cross the line is a heading shared by documents on both sides of it, placed between the documents that carry it.
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The rest is yours.
Drag the sphere to turn it. Point at any mark to read the section it names, and click to open that passage. Choose a document and the camera flies in; its sections are named on the sphere where they fit, and listed in full beside it either way.
Everything is also a list: 1,755 marks under 69 documents and the author, the same data, the same links, reachable from the keyboard, and the only version a page with no JavaScript can show.
Origin / courseworkCoursework, drawn as an outline
Tool marksTools, one mark each, standing off the sphere: not headings
Shared headingsHeadings carried by more than one document, standing off the surface by how many carry them; point at one and the fan to its documents is drawn
Reading recordPassages this browser has opened, ringed. The record stays in this browser
Citation chordsPoint at any mark and chords join its document to the documents its text links, or that link it; each chord's tick sits nearer the linked one
Document discsA document's disc, a hairline: two thirds of its share of the sphere, settled clear of every other disc; the document under the pointer, or faced by the home sphere, has its disc drawn in the chord colour
Origin zonesThe two parallels that bound the origins' zones: independent work north of the first, coursework between them, personal interest south of the second
Author datumThe author, one anchor at the north pole, above his own independent work: an origin of his own, its zone, disc and position by the rule every document follows; its card is the recorded standing, the recorded co-op term counted from this build's date, and the featured pieces' subtotal
Recorded origin lightThe light behind the home sphere takes the hue of the faced document's recorded origin: indigo over slate for independent work, cobalt for coursework, bronze over slate for personal interest; parchment, ivory and bone on paper
A mark's area is apportioned from its document's measured word count by
the share of the document's static text under that heading; it is not a per-section
measurement. Heading level is no longer drawn on the sphere and is kept in the index
beside it. A heading several documents carry is placed once, between them. Where a
document sits is a rule: each origin owns a zone of latitude whose area is its share
of the sections (independent work in the north, coursework across the middle, personal
interest in the south); within its zone each document starts at the height its
cumulative section count gives it, largest first, on a longitude that steps by the
golden angle from one document to the next, and is drawn as a disc of two thirds of its
share of the sphere; the discs are settled apart, a fixed number of steps with no
randomness, until no two touch, each held inside its zone. A document's own sections lie
on an equal-area spiral inside its disc, the first at the centre, each next one a golden
angle round and a ring further out, so a document reads as one cluster and its reading
order runs from the centre to the rim. A wide disc is a document of many sections, and
the third of the sphere that no disc holds is the space between documents. The build
recomputes every centre, every radius and every mark from the section counts on every
run and refuses a sphere that disagrees (check 28).
2B, Accounting and Financial Management, Analytics stream · co-op term January to April 2027, 96 days from this build (2026-09-27) · 7 featured pieces: 52,815 words, 40 figures, 58 tables