00 Manifold Standard

Version: 0.1.38

Abstract

The Manifold Standard maps digital data to a space. It defines several types of JSON objects and how to reliably reconstruct the space from them. The reconstructed space contains a three-dimensional scene, and may specify how users can interact and leave traces in the scene.

Status of This Memo

This document is currently not open to the public.

Relation to the reference implementations

One of the reference implementations of the standard is the project Exterior Space. Exterior Space is an open-source browser for spaces stored on-chain, planned to launch alongside the standard.

Exterior Space implements the standard with its own profile for optional fields and modules. It also includes additional features optimized for browsing and editing spaces. Exterior Space supports the standard, and its major version aligns with the standard’s major version. The maintainers plan to extract the conformant core into a standalone open-source package as the reference implementation of the standard, which Exterior Space will then use. Until that is complete, this document will include footnotes about Exterior Space where relevant.