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Reference

GlyphViz is primarily a visual, interactive tool — most users will spend their time in the GUI, not the command line. This section is organized that way: interface reference first, file format and CLI reference for scripting/automation users further down.

Interface

  • Viewer Navigation

    Mouse and keyboard controls for orbiting, panning, zooming, and selecting nodes in the 3D Viewer.

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  • Menus

    Every menu and menu item in the GlyphViz GUI.

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  • Properties Panel

    Every field in the Properties Panel — what it controls and how it maps to the underlying node data.

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  • Node Panel

    The hierarchy tree view: navigating, selecting, and restructuring nodes.

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  • Immersive VR

    Walking into a scene with a headset, in the browser — controls, the wrist panel, and what stands aside during a session.

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Visual model

  • Geometries

    Every shape a node can take, and when to use each one.

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  • Topologies

    How a parent node arranges its children in space.

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  • Channels Animation

    Playing a time series into node attributes — the complete list of what Channels can drive, and what cascades to children.

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Formats & scripting

  • ANTz Node CSV Format Spec

    The canonical column specification behind every GlyphViz scene.

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  • 3D Graph Layout

    Turning an edge list into a scene: force-directed layout in three dimensions, communities, and filters.

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  • CLI Reference

    For scripting, automation, and headless/CI use. Most interactive users won't need this.

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  • Claude Skill

    Teach Claude to generate and validate GlyphViz scene CSVs from your data.

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Glyph authoring tools

Three tools for building hyperglyphs — designed node hierarchies read as a single visual object. They all speak the same template .json, so a design can move between them.

  • Glyph Composer

    Build a glyph by hand, one level at a time, with a live preview. Ctrl+G

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  • Hyperglyph Generator

    Roll whole designs procedurally, then insert or save them for editing. Ctrl+H

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  • Hyperglyph Tree Designer

    A browser tool for designing branching, tree-like hyperglyphs and exporting them as Glyph Composer templates.

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Your own data

Tools that turn a personal data export into a finished scene. Unlike the glyph authoring tools above, these write a scene CSV rather than a glyph template.

  • Timeline Tower Designer

    A browser tool that turns your X (Twitter) archive into a tower of everything you have ever posted. Nothing is uploaded.

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This section is being built out

Some Interface and Visual model pages are still placeholders pending a verification pass with Claude Code against the actual GlyphViz source and GUI — including annotated screenshots generated through the --export-frame-style pipeline. Content there should not yet be treated as final.