Explore

Exploration is everything you do on the map surface itself: reading the point cloud, selecting regions, walking the cluster hierarchy, recoloring points by a column, and opening derived views of the same embedding. The panels on this page are the ones registered in the Exploration group of the View menu. Panels that read a selection and tell you about individual points live in Inspect; panels that run statistics live in Analyze.

Where these panels live

Open the menubar and choose View. Panels are grouped by section, and everything below sits under Exploration. Selecting one adds it as a tab to the current tabset; selecting it again closes it.

One exception: Map itself is deliberately left out of the View menu list. Every layout preset already ships a Map tab, and in most presets that tab is marked non-closable, so there is nothing to toggle. Map (Legacy) and every other map surface do appear in the menu.

Pages in this section

Map

The default WebGL point map: tools, selection, coloring, boundaries.

Map (Legacy)

The Three.js map, and the features that still only work there.

Map Settings

Create views and projections, and link two maps together.

Tree

Walk the cluster hierarchy, rename clusters, hide them, bag them.

Categories

Filter, select and bag points by their categorical columns.

Gradients

Cross-Axis, Arithmetic and Feature Scatterplot views over learned features.

Bags

Save a selection as a named, reusable group.

Journeys

Ordered stops through a space, built from vignettes.

Visual Brainstorming Map

A second map over AI-generated brainstorming points.

List

Read a bag or a search result as rows, several sets at a time.

Waypoints

Save the state of a space under a name and come back to it.

Memory Manifolds

Retrieve points by walking the local graph of the data.

The full Exploration group

Every panel registered under Exploration, in menu order. Entries without a link have no page yet.

Panel	What it does
Map	Renders the space as a 2D or 2.5D WebGL scatter map.
Map (Legacy)	The older Three.js map, which still owns gestures, in-scene journeys, in-scene gradients and geo backdrops.
Visual Brainstorming Map	A separate map over AI-generated brainstorming points and their clusters.
Cross-Axis	Compares two learned features as a red/blue point coloring.
Arithmetic	Renders a derived field built from weighted feature terms.
Arithmetic Controls	The expression builder and surface controls for the Arithmetic map.
Feature Scatterplot	Encodes learned features into point size and point color.
Scatterplot Controls	Picks the size and color features for the Feature Scatterplot map.
Categories	Browses the space's categorical columns and drives filtering, selection and bagging.
Waypoints	Lists saved states of the space and restores them.
Tree	Navigates the cluster hierarchy.
Reader	Shows the full contents of a data point.
List	Shows result sets, such as a bag or a search, as rows under a tab strip.
Bags	Creates and manages saved groups of points.
Map Settings	Creates views and projections, and links maps so their selections follow each other.
Journeys	Builds and plays ordered stops through the space.
Knowledge Graph	Builds a graph from document keywords and overlays it on the map.
Learn Mode	Generates a beginner, intermediate or expert explanation of one document.
Skill Gap	Compares a resume document against a role document and reports missing, shared and over-covered skills.
Gradients	Picks the active gradient feature and opens the three gradient map views.
Input Text Explorer	Shows the source text of a space that was created from text.
Video Player	Plays the source video of a video space and seeks to selected points.
Transcript	Shows the synchronized transcript; clicking a segment jumps the video.
Temporal Views	Visualizes how the data changes over time.
Localized Error	Diagnoses projection quality with aggregate error, false neighbors and missing neighbors.
Memory Manifolds	Runs TRACE retrieval from your selection and shows each step of the walk.
Settings	Space preferences, including which panels may open themselves on a selection.

Panels that open themselves

Some panels declare a point action, which lets Mantis offer them the moment you have a selection. Right-click the canvas on Map (Legacy) with points selected and you get a menu of eligible panels grouped into Inspect, Analyze, Visualize, Summarize and Export. Entries are filtered by how many points you have selected and by which field types the space actually has, so a panel that needs numeric columns never appears for a text-only space. Inspector and Summarizer are enabled by default; the rest are opt-in from the Settings panel.

Read nextMapStart with the panel you will spend the most time in.