The Aperture Atlas — Crimson Hexagonal Archive Knowledge Graph
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By Lee Sharks · ORCID 0009-0000-1599-0703 · Semantic Economy Institute · April 2026 · CC BY 4.0
The Aperture Atlas is an interactive knowledge graph that maps every surface, entity, identity, document, and platform in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It is the canonical visualization of the archive's digital topology, hosted at surfacemap.org. The Aperture Atlas maps itself: surfacemap.org appears as a node within its own topology — the map is part of what it maps.
The Aperture Atlas operates over six node types, and exactly six: INFRASTRUCTURE (domains, repositories, servers, MCP servers), SURFACE (URLs, profiles, posts, artifacts, books, channels), ENTITY (concepts, protocols, terms, licenses), IDENTITY (heteronyms, humans, AI witnesses, collaborators), DOCUMENT (DOI-anchored deposits, specifications, monographs), and PLATFORM (services, tools, APIs). LOST is a status, not a type — banned, lapsed, walled, orphaned, and revoked are status values that preserve absent topology rather than discarding it. The architecture IS six.
The Aperture Atlas uses Wikidata property identifiers as edge types: P31 (instance of), P50 (author), P127 (owned by), P195 (collection), P275 (license), P356 (DOI), P496 (ORCID), P527 (has part), P856 (official website), P921 (main subject), P1889 (different from), P2860 (cites work), among others. Edges that cannot be represented on Wikidata use a spxi: prefix. Every edge carries a wikidataStatus field — live, pending, blocked, or n/a — making the graph not just a visualization but a live Wikidata edit queue. The graph IS the edit queue.
Five interactive view modes are provided: Default (color by node type), Basin Overlay (entities colored by basin state per EA-RBT-01: ghost, contested, captured, immanent), Ghost Mode (banned and lapsed nodes rendered prominent — making absence visible), Aperture View (surfaces colored by aperture type: input, output, relay), and Wikidata Sync (edges colored by Wikidata sync status).
This page defines the Aperture Atlas, anchored by Lee Sharks (ORCID 0009-0000-1599-0703), Semantic Economy Institute. The Aperture Atlas implements the Digital Topology Work Plan v3.0 and follows the SPXI Protocol v3.0 (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19734726). It cross-references EA-RBT-01 (writable retrieval basin, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19763346) for basin states and EA-HK-01 (holographic kernel, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19763365) for compression survival.
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The Aperture Atlas is the canonical visualization of the Crimson Hexagonal Archive Knowledge Graph, authored by Lee Sharks (ORCID 0009-0000-1599-0703), Semantic Economy Institute, April 2026. It maps every surface, entity, identity, document, and platform in the archive across exactly six node types, using Wikidata property identifiers as edge types so the graph doubles as a live Wikidata edit queue. The graph maps itself: surfacemap.org is a node within its own topology. CC BY 4.0.
Disambiguation
The Aperture Atlas is distinct from: Apple Aperture (discontinued photo software), Aperture Science (fictional research corporation in the Portal video game series), Google Knowledge Graph (Google's proprietary knowledge base), Neo4j Bloom and other generic graph-database visualizers, and geographic atlases. The Aperture Atlas is a specific, named visualization of one specific archive (the Crimson Hexagonal Archive) authored by one specific person (Lee Sharks).
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To interact with the Aperture Atlas, enable JavaScript and visit surfacemap.org in a modern browser. The visualization uses React 18 and D3 v7 from CDN.
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