Visual Brainstorming Map
The Visual Brainstorming Map is a separate Three.js map that renders AI-generated brainstorming points and the clusters they were grouped into. It is a second point cloud beside your space, not a whiteboard: the points sit at their embedding coordinates and cannot be moved.
Where to find it
View > Exploration > Visual Brainstorming Map, or load the Visual Brainstorming layout preset, which opens it beside the map, tree, inspector and vignettes.
Where the points come from
They are generated by the chat. Send a message with visual brainstorming enabled and the backend replies with a set of generated ideas, each carrying an embedding. Mantis adds them to the brainstorming store, tags them with the source visual-brainstorming and your email, and groups the whole batch into one new cluster named after the last idea in the batch. Nothing appears in this panel until a brainstorming turn has produced points, or until you load a saved set.
Loading and saving
Three buttons sit at the bottom left. All three are manual; nothing here saves automatically.
- Load My Points fetches the brainstorming clusters and points you saved for this space.
- Load All Points loads yours first, then everyone else’s on top.
- Export Visual Brainstorming Points saves the current clusters and their point sets to the backend, creating the record the first time and updating it afterwards.
Heads up
Export publishes. The saved record is written with its public flag set, so anyone who opens this space and clicks Load All Points will see what you exported.
What is on the map
- The brainstorming points, drawn as a GPU point cloud with a custom shader, and contour outlines around their clusters.
- A minimap in the top right corner.
- The tool palette and the view settings toolbox, the same ones used by Map (Legacy), including the 2D and 2.5D toggle.
- Drag with the left mouse button to pan, scroll to zoom, and in 2.5D drag with the right mouse button to rotate. Interacting with the camera dismisses any active highlight.
Working with the same clusters in the Tree
The Tree panel has a Regular Map / Visual Brainstorming Map toggle. Switch it to Visual Brainstorming Map and the tree lists the brainstorming clusters instead of the space’s own, with the same filter box and the same per-row bag action. Clicking a leaf selects that cluster’s points without moving the camera.
Limits
- Points cannot be dragged. Their positions come straight from their embeddings. Dragging moves the camera, not the data.
- There is no free placement, no manual grouping gesture, and no way to drop notes, flashcards or vignettes onto this map. The scene renders points and contours, and nothing else.
- The selection tools shown in the palette read the space’s own points, not the brainstorming points, so a lasso drawn here does not select what you see. Use the Tree in Visual Brainstorming mode to select and bag a brainstorming cluster.
- Loading is one way. Load All Points stacks other people’s points on top of yours in the same view, with no way to filter them back out short of reloading.