Atlases

Encyclopedia chapter · generated from the encyclopedia's own data

An atlas lists what exists. The dot-grid atlas below covers the grid families attested in this platform’s design corpus — every one carrying documented designs — rather than every arithmetically possible dot count, because an unattested grid is a number, not a family. The festival atlas follows the same rule, ordered by documented weight so the tradition’s own centre of gravity is visible: what is drawn most, not what a taxonomy imagines equally.

The motif section is held to that rule as well. Motif tagging began on 30 July 2026 under the platform’s evidence contract — a design is tagged only when its creator’s own title names the motif — so the atlas below ranks the motifs with documented, attributed weight, and the motifs whose designs are not yet title-evidenced remain catalogued beneath it rather than ranked as zeros. The split is the point: these pages are generated from live data precisely so that the attested and the pending are never blurred.

Dot-grid atlas

39 grid families are attested in the design corpus, carrying 2,429 documented designs between them. The atlas lists the families that exist, not every arithmetically possible count — an unattested grid is not a family.

GridDesigns
3 to 19
3 to 250
3 to 336
4 to 230
4 to 459
5 to 1113
5 to 3219
5 to 5166
6 to 293
6 to 6191
7 to 1211
7 to 374
7 to 4156
7 to 7113
8 to 289
8 to 415
8 to 875
9 to 1149
9 to 375
9 to 591
9 to 942
10 to 239
10 to 1012
11 to 145
11 to 317
11 to 510
11 to 635
12 to 224
12 to 411
13 to 117
13 to 311
13 to 723
14 to 234
15 to 124
15 to 39
15 to 822
16 to 210
16 to 615
21 to 1115

Motif atlas

14 of the 32 motifs in the vocabulary carry documented designs — 349 between them — ordered below by that weight.

Catalogued without attested designs: Cow, Tree of Life, Coconut, Banana, Chakra, Mandala, Spiral, Flute, Bell, Elephant, Hamsa, Sun, Moon, Creeper, Gopuram, Naga, Lakshmi's Feet, Garland.

Festival atlas

24 of the 26 occasions in the vocabulary carry documented designs — 722 between them — ordered below by that weight.

Catalogued without attested designs: Bhogi, Puthandu.