Anatomy

Diagrams of boxes and arrows describe an idea. These build it. Each piece is the real thing, running: a transformer you can type into, laid out in 3D from its own numbers; a web stack you can overload. The 3D dissections walk through a landmark paper or system component by component, trace every figure to its source, and end with experiments of their own.

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All7 AI & ML3 Architecture4

Any Language models 2 Neural network foundations 1 Performance & capacity 1 Web & API systems 1 Distributed systems 2

Any Working model 3 Simulation 4

A live simulation of the system, checked against its closed-form model.

1 model for “log compaction”.

Simulation · 3D Architecture · Distributed systems

Anatomy of Raft

In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm, dissected: five servers laid out in 3D with their terms, votes, logs and state machines, Figures 7 and 8 rebuilt from real blocks, and a research desk that reruns the paper's leader-election measurements.

Raft's Figure 2 as five servers in 3D: timers, votes, logs and messages computed live from a seeded simulation, with the paper's Figures 7 and 8 as real blocks and a research desk that reproduces its…

52 components · Intermediate 17 Oct 2026