The art of memory

The ancient discipline — Simonides to the rhetors to the Renaissance — of storing ideas as vivid images set in the rooms of an imagined building, and walking the building to retrieve them. Bruno made the building combinatorial; Frances Yates recovered the whole tradition in 1966.

Because you are inside one. This atlas — ideas given bodies, bodies given places, places walked — is the art of memory rebuilt in WebGL, and the lineage deserves to be named. It is also the map ≠ territory axiom run in reverse: a map built deliberately, to be lived in, and known to be a map the whole time.