Thanks! You nailed the intuition! Yes, it shares DNA with Landmark MDS, but we needed something strictly deterministic for the UI. Re: Publishing: We don't have a paper planned for this specific visualisation technique yet. I just wanted to open-source it because it solved a major bottleneck for our dashboard. However, our main research focus at Thingbook is DriftMind (a cold start streaming forecaster and anomaly detector, preprint here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/398142288_DriftMind...). That paper is currently under peer review! It shares the same 'efficiency-first' philosophy as this visualisation tool