How the strata globe was built

The concept

A spinning planet with a wedge cut out of it, like an MRI or x-ray cross-section, revealing the layers inside as it turns. The globe keeps spinning; the open wedge lets you see down through the layers to the core.

The layers, core to crust

1. Memory — the core. The foundational problem everything serves.
2. Workspace + efficiency — the living layer around the core.
3. Agnostic storm review.
4. Cross-agent communication + multi-user tenancy.
5. Discipline — the outer crust that encloses and enforces everything inside it.

In a talk, discipline comes first and memory second. Spatially, discipline is the shell and memory is the core.

How it's made

• The land outlines, colours, light direction and starfield come from the hand-drawn canvas globe on the Pageant League site.
• The globe is re-rendered in three.js, so the crust can be a sphere with a wedge of longitude removed and the two cut faces can show the layers as rings.
• You can drag in any direction to rotate it: sideways spins it on its pole, and up or down tips it over. It keeps drifting briefly after you let go, and it auto-spins.
• Click a layer on the cut face, or in the list, to bring up its stack of cards. Open a card large and step through the stack with ← and →, or change layer with ↑ and ↓.
• It's one module, used by the full-screen page and the Features page alike, and three.js only loads on those pages.

Built on wikiTaTa

The brief, the layer cards and this page were written as wikiTaTa cards, by an agent working under the same discipline the globe describes.