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The Family Sphere

A Real Family, in the Genetic Orrery

In Brief

Case Study VIII-b built the genetic orrery as a closed-form scaffold — 995 structural slots, generated by arithmetic, waiting for a real family. This page is that waiting ended: load an actual spreadsheet of names, birth years, and parent references, and every uploaded person becomes one point in a single spherical cloud — no privileged center, no shell reserved for any one relationship. Height reflects birth year, closeness reflects real relationships, and the D≤7 genetic horizon survives only as a coloring boundary around whoever you center the view on, not a geometric one.

Everything stays local. The data file never leaves your browser — there is no server, no upload, and nothing is transmitted anywhere. Export the People sheet of your filled-in spreadsheet as a .csv file, then load it below.

The Family Sphere

Load your own recorded family

This reads a .csv export of the People sheet from the Cosmoxenia Family Database template — one row per person, with parent1_id / parent2_id driving every blood relationship. Siblings, cousins, half-relations, and double relations all fall out of those references automatically. A blank parent means an unknown or unresearched line, not a guess. An optional spouse_id column covers the one thing parent references can't: a marriage that produced no children, which would otherwise leave no trace at all — that person still gets a place on the sphere, connected by an affine line, and if their spouse is a blood relative, labeled "by marriage." Load a second person's data as Sphere B below, and if the two centers are parents, Sphere C composes their child — ancestors drawn directly from each parent's own recorded lines, aunts/uncles and cousins inherited automatically from whatever collateral data each parent's own sphere already has.

Load your data (.csv):

Center the sphere on:

No data loaded yet — load a .csv file, or try the worked example.

Sphere B — the other parent's data (.csv):

Center Sphere B on:

No second sphere loaded yet.

If these two are parents — child's name (optional):

Spheres visible

Generational Distance (D)

Lineage

Generation Plane (G) — ancestor(−) / peer(0) / descendant(+)

View

Drag to rotate (or pan, via the drag-mode button above) · scroll / pinch to zoom · click a node to trace it back to you

Start here Height reflects birth year (earliest at top, latest at bottom); closeness reflects real relationships. Click any node.

Fig. 1 — No node is geographically privileged — not even the person the sphere is centered on. Height reflects birth year, a reproducing pair sits close together, and a child sits close to its parents; the D≤7 genetic horizon around whoever the sphere is centered on survives only as a color, not a position. A person reachable by more than one real line (a double cousin, most notably) is drawn once, with a trace line to each line it's actually related through — and wherever that line passes through a mated pair, it forks to touch both of them before continuing, drawn as a dash-dot rose line rather than gold: a marriage isn't a line of descent, so it doesn't get styled as one.

☷ COSMOXENIA ☰ — THE FAMILY SPHERE