QEC Portrait Series — Interactive Galaxy Lifecycle Visualization

Open in browser: https://jsl29.github.io/qec-portraits/ An interactive single-file HTML visualization companion to the Quantum Entropic Cosmology (QEC) corpus. No installation required — open in any modern browser. The portrait series presents 34 galaxies at different stages of the QEC lifecycle, from deep blue cloud pre-crossing galaxies through the δσ trough, sign-flip, ring-down, and red sequence asymptote. Each portrait includes a Legacy Survey DR9 or Hubble Space Telescope image with three concentric rings showing the three-framework comparison: standard physics prediction, QEC prediction, and observed velocity dispersion. Galaxies where standard physics is geometrically bracketed between the QEC prediction and the observation are marked with the ⚡ badge. The ring-down and sign-flip portraits represent a new mode of evidence presentation — individual object confirmation of a population-level prediction, with the three-framework comparison made geometrically visible in a single image. The QEC papers establish the statistical signal across ~900,000 galaxies in SDSS, MaNGA DR17, and DESI DR1. The portraits show it in specific, nameable objects. Five MaNGA DR17 triple-point galaxies are included, each spatially resolved at the Identity Point (D4000 = 1.607 isophote) with topology type classification from QEC4: Type A (classic post-zero), Type B (recovery arm), Type C (at-zero), Type D (approaching), and Type E (inverted outside-in quench). These are the first galaxies in which the Bessel zero has been spatially resolved as a closed physical surface. The file contains two interactive overview visualizations: Spatial Map — polar projection of the local universe (√-scale, Milky Way at center). All 34 galaxies at physical positions using RA and luminosity distance. Hover for spectroscopic data, click to navigate. Cosmic Timeline — expanding universe cone showing all 34 galaxies at their QEC crossing epoch vs stellar mass at crossing. The QEC crossing mass threshold (log M★ = 10.1) is shown as a horizontal reference line. The line does not move with redshift — confirmed redshift-independent across 1.1 Gyr (QEC1 Test 55). Portrait sections: We Are Here · Local Group · Blue Cloud · Threshold · Green Valley · δσ Ring-Down Confirmed · δσ Sign-Flip Confirmed · At Trough · Above Crossing · Red Sequence · Triple Point · Identity Point Galaxy data sourced from SDSS DR17, MaNGA DR17, and DESI Legacy Imaging Survey DR9. Evidential status consistently applied throughout: confirmed (directly measured δσ), inferred (lifecycle position from D4000 and morphology), and consistent (morphologically consistent with QEC prediction, established alternative mechanisms also exist).