03 · Web · Chinese
Episteme格致
Retrace how people came to know the world. Start from a question and follow the thread of knowledge into the next field.
Live at episteme-self.vercel.app
Start from a question, then choose any subject from one dial.
The product
Start from a question. Follow the thread of knowledge into the next field.
Twenty-two subjects in six clusters, from mathematics and physics to history and the arts. Articles link to each other through wiki links with backlinks, so a question asked in one field leads to its neighbours in another.
A force-directed graph draws the whole collection as one map, and reading routes thread articles into an order worth following. Search answers ⌘K in Chinese through a custom bigram tokenizer. Mathematics renders with KaTeX, and a few physics pages run in 3D.
It is a static Next.js build with React Three Fiber for the 3D scenes and MiniSearch in the browser, deployed to Vercel from GitHub Actions. There is no account and no server-side reading history. Two themes carry the mood: an observatory at night and a field notebook by day.
Current edge
What is unfinished, and what comes next.
The interface is Chinese only, and there is no English edition yet. It still lives on a vercel.app address without its own domain. There is no page yet explaining how the articles were produced and checked, which a reader of a knowledge site deserves to know. Performance on low-end phones has not been measured, and the knowledge graph alone is about 490 KB compressed. The content is all rights reserved.
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