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Welcome to the Interactive
Map of the Smoke Ring

A live 3D reconstruction of the gas torus orbiting the neutron star Voy, shed from the atmosphere of Goldblatt's World. Drag to orbit, scroll to zoom, click any element to fly there. Tap ⓘ INFO in the top bar at any time for full instructions.

▸ LX-617-A ▸ LIDAR Full Spectrum ▸ Real-time Render

Into the Smoke Ring

A live 3D reconstruction of the gas torus orbiting the neutron star Voy, shed from the atmosphere of Goldblatt's World — itself in a binary orbit with the yellow dwarf T3. Every point you see is generated in real time — no images, no baked textures. Dive through the torus, approach a tree, and the cartography blooms procedurally with detail. Based on Larry Niven's The Integral Trees (1984) and The Smoke Ring (1987), with ring parameters calculated by Robert L. Forward.

Drag orbit ▸ Right-drag pan ▸ Scroll zoom
WASD / travel ▸ QE rise / descend
V reveal all elements ▸ Hover preview
Click a label — camera flies to it
F fit all ▸ R reset ▸ Esc close panel
Drag to orbit ▸ Pinch to zoom
Tap a label — camera flies to it
sidebar — browse all locations
SPIN & GRAVITY buttons at bottom
Initializing lidar scan
KENDY Archive · Levoy System Scan
Scale
LIDAR ASTRO
SCANLX-617-A
POINTS
FPS
TEMPORAL SCRUBBER · KENDY ARCHIVE
r=4.0
SCAN
SYS
ORBIT
ATMO
TIME
CTRL
SCAN ID:LX-617-A
COORD:117.482 / 78.993
ALT:462 Mm
RESOLUTION:2 Mm/px
MODE:LIDAR ASTRO
SPECTRUM:FULL
DENSITY:5.6e+09 pts
0
200 Mm
SYSTEM:LEVOY · T3 BINARY
TORUS Ø:~1,000 Mm
VOY MASS:~0.5 M☉
CLASS:NEUTRON + G-DWARF
ATMOSPHERIC ANALYZER
NOMINAL
kPa SCANNING
O₂
N₂
H₂
He
CO₂
H₂O
CH₄
NH₃
O₂ · 60s