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Cosmos

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Three browser tools follow one deterministic seed from a small galaxy to a stellar system and a selected world.

One seeded path

Galaxy Generator samples the wide field. System Generator resolves one stellar system. World Generator moves into the local frame of a selected planet or moon. The tools are related views, not three unrelated generators.

viewresponsibility
GalaxyPopulation, structure, and uncertainty across a small generated field.
SystemStars, planets, moons, belts, motion, and the limits of the orbital model.
WorldSurface, atmosphere, sky, host body, and the evidence behind the rendered scene.

What the output means

Every result is deterministic model output. A label may be observed, modeled, inferred, or aesthetic inside the tool, but none of these pages is an astronomical catalogue or a discovery claim. The same seed exists to make a result inspectable and reproducible—not real.

Current local development

The current generator pages remain available while their shared foundation is rebuilt. The local rebuild separates plain-data generation from page interfaces and makes seed paths, units, coordinate frames, lighting, and the system-history ledger explicit.

workverified state at 17 July 2026boundary
Shared Cosmos rebuildEight Node tests pass across the Codex, dynamics, galaxy, lighting and frames, noise, seeded RNG, schemas, rogue objects, and system history.Local development; it has not replaced the three public interfaces.
SOL experimentSix native Rust tests pass for the separate WebAssembly N-body integrator.Exploratory; it does not power the public generators or the site background.

SOL uses a checked-in JPL Horizons/DE441 snapshot rather than live network requests. The snapshot records its source queries and checksums; Sun through Mars and the Moon are visible while the outer-planet system barycenters remain in the model as gravitational perturbers. Source data, Rust/WASM dynamics, browser presentation, and provenance are kept as separate layers.

The current integrator is a single-threaded leapfrog implementation. REBOUND and ASSIST are documented as validation references or possible future foundations; they are not the code currently running.

Reference

The Galactic Codex records the star, world, moon, atmosphere, and detection-bias vocabulary used across the tools. Open the Cosmos landing page to choose a scale.