Project Arachne

Arachne is a research instrument under construction at the lab. It combines document ingestion (including the lab’s own reference bibles), genuine internet research, and interactive knowledge-graph mapping — narrated by an event-driven, animated mechanical spider.

The rule it is built around

Every visualization must correspond to a real computational or research operation. The spider does not perform busyness. If it is moving, something is being read, fetched or connected.

Arachne also has to keep its categories straight: creative canon, subjective decisions, hypotheses and verifiable facts are distinguished, not blended. Results are never fabricated.

This file describes the project’s stated design intent. It is not a release announcement.