Systems Atlas Project
A map of systems.
The Systems Atlas Project attempts to decompose the systems that shape the world into their smallest parts in both structural and functional terms. Imperfect and unfinished by design as this isn't a static taxonomy but instead dynamic and evolving like all real systems. It is open for inspection, critique and collaboration, with the uncertainty left visible. The next step is a model built on the atlas where changing one part allows you to watch the consequences propagate.
Under construction Nine domains open Version 0.1
Destination
Two decompositions, and the mapping between them.
Structure and function are separate decompositions, each with its own tree. A third layer maps functional components to the structural parts they involve, and propagation runs across that mapping.
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In progress
Structure
Divide each domain into parts that do not overlap, at a consistent level of abstraction, with the criteria written down.
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Not started
Function
A separate decomposition of what systems do, with its own tree. Not derived from the structural one.
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Not started
Linkage
The mapping between the two: which structural parts each functional component involves. Propagation runs across this.
Current map
Nine domains. Most of them barely started.
Each row shows how far that domain has been divided, and how many of its nodes carry a definition. Depth is not a score: a deeper domain is only more finely divided, and every level still has to survive the same rules.
Defined counts the definition field alone, not the six fields a node is required to carry. It is the loosest measure on the site.
Level divided Level not yet examined
Tools
Four apps that came before the map, not out of it.
These were not derived from the taxonomy. Each came from noticing a gap directly — something being measured badly, or not at all — before the decomposition could point at it.
They are independent tools, not a suite. They share no data and no account, and each keeps its own name, colour and identity.
A training app that counts what you actually did.
Open Konki →
Japanese vocabulary, reviewed just before you would have forgotten it.
Open Shutoku →
You write the rules. Once a day, you mark whether you kept them.
Open Kantetsu →
Unbroken attention, measured without a pause button.
Open Bottou →Contributing
Open to being told it is wrong.
This is an open project, currently led by one person. Anyone can challenge a division, propose a change, or comment on any part of any node.
A case that will not classify cleanly is worth more than a new category.