r/placeAn organizational fruit fly

The atlas

Authoritative source, reproduced unchanged. Exact Markdown · Agent copy with resolved links · The files: data/atlas/. These instructions govern research runs, not checkpoint interviews. They keep the run's own words: a room is a community, a mark an artwork, the analyst the aggregator, the case lead the community coder and the global model the population model.

The 2017 place-atlas: 1,473 artworks, each with its outline on the canvas (path), its centre, and the subreddits it names (links.subreddit). get_atlas.sh downloads the exact copy the study used (sha256 begins 40a93f67dc552878), pinned to a commit of placeAtlas/atlas-2017. The run keeps its own copy, aggregator/input/canvas/atlas_2017.json.

It is a pointer only. It says which communities to look at and where they built. Its name and description fields are one annotator's first reading and never enter the coding.

Get it: bash atlas/get_atlas.sh. It stops if the bytes differ from the run's copy.

Read by: pixels-per-artwork/code/fetch_sources.py; in the aggregator, the build's neighbour and canvas steps (aggregator/input/canvas/atlas_2017.json is the same file).

Tested 2026-09-26: commit fb730258 downloaded; byte-identical to the run's copy, 1,473 entries.

Codebook

atlas_2017.json is a list of 1,473 entries. The fields the study reads: id; name; links.subreddit (the subreddits the entry credits, as typed); path (the outline, a list of [x, y] vertices, keyed by period); center (keyed the same way). description and name are an annotator's words and never enter the coding.

credits_beyond_links.csv lists the artworks of the 12 population communities that no atlas link names but that the census admitted from the canvas or from an atlas description (coder/census/validations.jsonl): one row per community and artwork, with the route and the words that credit it. r/tenma has none: its name is written on the canvas, but no atlas entry covers it. r/OrderOfTheKoi's koi has no atlas outline either: it was built from hour 30, lost to the Flag of Italy and erased before the freeze. Its region is derived_regions.json, 541 pixels taken from the pixel record (the source field says how), named in the table's region column; the credit it replaced was the whole flag. The census itself does not use this table; the canvas steps do (data/pixels-hourly/build_pixels.py for the regions of the hourly series, aggregator/handler/build_outcome.py for the six canvas fields, aggregator/handler/build_canvas.py for subreddits_in_frame). An artwork keeps its atlas links as well.