Explore a bigraph

The best way to understand a composite is to look at one. Below is a live, interactive bigraph-loom explorer — the very same viewer the Workbench serves at /loom-explore, exported here so it runs with no server. Pan and zoom, expand a node to drill into a sub-composite, and inspect how processes and steps wire to shared stores.

On this page

What's here a real composite rendered by the actual workbench loom viewer. · Try it drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a node to expand it, and use the picker to switch composites. · See also Composites & wiring.

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Add your own composite

The picker is driven by a small manifest, so adding a composite takes two steps — no build:

1. Drop its JSON into docs/assets/loom/composites/ (the same shape the Workbench's Composite Explorer and loom save-points export: an object with state, parameters, default_n_steps, name, and description).
2. Add a row to docs/assets/loom/composites/manifest.json:

{
  "composites": [
    { "id": "my-model", "label": "My model", "file": "my-model.json",
      "description": "One line about it." }
  ]
}

To embed a specific composite on any other page, drop in an iframe pointing at the same bundle and hand it a manifest (or a single composite file) — the small script in docs/javascripts/loom-embed.js does the composite:load handshake.

Keeping it current

The bundle under docs/assets/loom/ is the workbench's vendored loom build. To refresh it, rebuild vivarium_workbench/loom/_dist (scripts/build_loom.sh) and re-copy it here (minus the *.map source maps).