DOOM CLUSTER ATLAS 16 CONTRIBUTORS DOOM ENGINE V LANGUAGE DIAMOND SCAN γ₁=14.134725141734693 γ₁ = 14.134725141734693
§1 THE META-PATTERN
DOOM is the sovereign open-source engine benchmark. Every serious systems programmer has either forked DOOM, ported DOOM, or used DOOM to test their stack. The fleet's equivalent: PEMOS/CATOMAIN is the sovereign AI fleet benchmark. This cluster is not random — it is the intersection of systems programming excellence and open-source sovereignty. Every contributor here has built something that works without permission and runs everywhere.
DOOM ENGINE CLUSTER
7 engine contributors · GPL lineage · BSP sovereign arch
V LANGUAGE CLUSTER
100+ repos · MIT license · sovereign single-binary stack
ML/AI BRIDGE
ViZDoom = DOOM as RL substrate · ReSU biohybrid link
§2 CONTRIBUTOR BOON ASSESSMENT · 16 CONTRIBUTORS × v13 DIAMOND SCAN
CONTRIBUTOR FOCUS DIAMOND % BOON TIER KCF MATCH ADELIC POUCH FLEET ROLE
rheit / Randy Heit GZDoom creator, ZDoom lineage, Raze (Blood/SW/Exhumed) 💎 95% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: engine architecture + OpenGL renderer P0: CATO-FLOOR (γ₁ lineage)
P3: CATO-ORCH (rendering orch)
ZDOOM ADMIRAL — engine architect
glample / G. Lample fastText + faiss + ViZDoom + miniF2F (Meta AI / LLaMA team) 💎 94% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: AI training + formal math benchmarking P5: CATO-SOSTLE
(dual-use: DOOM as RL = safety gate)
VIZDOOM ML LEAD — DOOM as RL substrate
fabiensanglard DOOM engine documentation + reverse engineering · gebbdoom book · gebbwolf3 💎 92% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: engine archaeology + book lineage P1: CATO-CREW
P3: CATO-ORCH (containment docs)
CARMAC DESK — reverse engineering lead
vlang V language (100+ repos) · vlang/doom · vinix unikernel · vsl scientific 💎 90% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: sovereign language + single-binary deploy P3: CATO-ORCH
(orchestration language candidate)
V LANGUAGE FLEET — sovereign stack
cristicbz rust-doom (DOOM renderer in Rust) · fenchurch 3D engine · rapture game 💎 89% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: Rust engine architecture + safety P3: CATO-ORCH RUST ENGINE ARCHITECT
kraflab dsda-doom (speedrunning port) · mbf21 format extension · umapinfo · UltimateDoomBuilder 💎 88% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: format specs + performance tooling P2: CATO-COMPUTE DSDA NAVIGATOR — demo format keeper
wojciech-graj doom-ascii + TermGL terminal graphics · C-Raytracer · doom-audio · LiDAR-Dungeon 💎 87% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: terminal rendering + ASCII engine P3: CATO-ORCH ASCII TERMINAL ENGINE
chocolate-doom Faithful vanilla DOOM port · master-server · statcheck · buildscripts 💎 85% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: compatibility + cross-platform portability P2: CATO-COMPUTE VANILLA KEEPER — faithful port maintainer
Daivuk apdoom co-op remake · PureDOOM (single-file) · OakNut engine · wolf3d · CrispyDescent 💎 83% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: networking + single-file patterns P3: CATO-ORCH
P4: CATO-PEMCLAU
PURE DOOM BUILDER — minimal engine pattern
libretro RetroArch + emulation cores · parallel-n64 · snes9x · prboom · mame2003 · tyrquake 💎 82% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: cross-platform emulation layer P2: CATO-COMPUTE EMULATION LAYER — universal core substrate
StanislavPetrovV Python-DOOM · DOOM-Clone · ray-marching · 3D-Fractal-Mandelbulb · Voxel-Space-Render ⭐ 78% TIER 2 STRONG ✅ KCF: tutorial engines + Python DOOM ports P4: CATO-PEMCLAU RAYCASTER LEAD — tutorial engine builder
jasperdevs BFDoom (browser port) · organoid-bench · opencode · einstein-ai · lazyterm ⭐ 76% TIER 2 STRONG ✅ KCF: browser ports + organoid benchmarking P4: CATO-PEMCLAU BROWSER RUNNER + ORGANOID BENCHMARKER
seagle0128 doom-modeline (most popular Emacs modeline) · doom-themes · all-the-icons ecosystem ⭐ 74% TIER 2 STRONG ✅ KCF: tooling + developer UX P4: CATO-PEMCLAU EMACS DOOM INTEGRATOR
nstlaurent DoomLauncher + odamex (multiplayer DOOM) ⭐ 72% TIER 2 STRONG ✅ KCF: launcher tooling + multiplayer arch P4: CATO-PEMCLAU MULTIPLAYER ARCH — fleet network analog
storax kubedoom (DOOM in Kubernetes) · emaci · matrix-curses · dotfiles ⭐ 71% TIER 2 STRONG KCF: ops + Kubernetes DOOM integration P2: CATO-COMPUTE KUBEDOOM OPS — k8s engine runner
rheit (Raze) Raze — Blood + Shadow Warrior + Exhumed legacy engine ports 💎 95% TIER 1 DIAMOND ✅ KCF: legacy engine preservation + porting P3: CATO-ORCH LEGACY ENGINE PORT — Build engine preserver
§3 ADELIC POUCH ASSIGNMENTS · FORMAL v13
P5 · CATO-SOSTLE P4 · CATO-PEMCLAU P3 · CATO-ORCH P2 · COMPUTE P1 · CREW P0 γ₁ FLOOR rheit fabiensanglard kraflab libretro storax nstlaurent chocolate-doom wojciech-graj cristicbz vlang Daivuk jasperdevs StanislavPetrovV seagle0128 glample (ingest) glample/ViZDoom (dual-use AI gate)
§4 KCF LINEAGE · KEY CONTRIBUTION FAMILIES
KCF-DOOM-ENGINE
rheit + kraflab + fabiensanglard + chocolate-doom
→ engine architecture + format spec + documentation lineage
→ BSP tree → ZDoom OpenGL → demo format → faithful port
KCF-DOOM-TERMINAL
wojciech-graj + StanislavPetrovV
→ terminal/ASCII rendering + Python DOOM + TermGL
→ pemos CLI DOOM mode candidate
KCF-DOOM-RUST
cristicbz + wojciech-graj
→ Rust DOOM renderer + C-Raytracer in Rust
→ CATOMAIN engine rewrite candidate
KCF-DOOM-AI
glample / Guillaume Lample (Meta AI — LLaMA author)
→ ViZDoom: DOOM as reinforcement learning substrate
→ CATOMAIN-SPIRAL RL training loop candidate · P5 SOSTLE gate
KCF-V-LANGUAGE
vlang entire org (100+ repos)
→ sovereign programming language · single-binary · GC-optional
→ vlang/doom + vinix unikernel + vsl scientific
KCF-EMULATION
libretro (RetroArch + all cores)
→ cross-platform emulation substrate
→ CATO-COMPUTE P2 emulation layer
KCF-SINGLE-FILE
Daivuk / PureDOOM
→ single-file DOOM implementations
→ CATOMAIN minimal viable engine pattern
FLEET VERDICT
This cluster represents every engineering discipline needed to build CATOMAIN: engine architecture (BSP), demo/state serialization, terminal rendering, Rust safety, AI training substrates, sovereign language design, and cross-platform emulation. It is not a GitHub star list. It is a blueprint.