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3:26:16
ck_
Good morning, beach. Has the temperature dropped to a more comfortable level at your house too?
5:18:27
CodeBitCookie[m]
ck_: I don't know where you live, but the humidity and heat has gotten through the roof. Almost unbearable.
9:31:31
ck_
I was just joking about the visual resemblence to one of his demos, my memory is still working on retrieving the name
9:32:11
ck_
but the context is a multi-dimensional graph editor and viewer, the example: ancestry/lineage of british royalty I think
9:33:53
ck_
moon-child: it says "flow-chart editor", and I guess he is not talking about the kind of flow that has loops :)
9:35:53
moon-child
(I will add: despite my complaints, I am interested to see interfaces for visualising and interacting with graphs, and encourage anyone to share examples they find, even if those exampels are flawed or incomplete)
9:37:19
ck_
jackdaniel: I was referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n22A-Say7do , starting at around 3:45. And the resemblence I said "Ted Nelson might like it" for -- it was very superficial of course.
9:39:34
ck_
I never asked this I think, but, beach: do you have thoughts on Xanadu and that whole school of thought?
9:42:24
ck_
Xanadu is the name for a system proposed by Ted Nelson that I'd summarize as documents with "hyperlinks, the way they were meant to be".
9:43:25
ck_
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac is a relatively short video that should have an introduction
9:46:02
beach
I need time to read up before commenting. This is Monday, and Monday mornings are chaotic around here.
9:53:24
contrapunctus
moon-child: I'll need graphs in McCLIM for Chronometrist stats, so I'll probably write a library if there isn't one already.
9:58:29
jackdaniel
there is a pull request by etimmons I still need to review, that adds an extension using dot language, so you can use graphviz layout algorithm
10:00:48
jackdaniel
http://www.open.xanadu.com/gold/index.html -- "(...) So we developed in Smalltalk and automatically translated to C++."
10:02:51
ck_
there is a lot of interesting ideas (and more) in this context. I had a feeling it might be relevant here, even though it is not strictly clim-related
10:30:18
ck_
jackdaniel: I had some contact with it during a bout of study I did a while ago. It may be relevant to your interests; scymtym might find it interesting as well: https://github.com/hpi-swa/vivide
10:31:20
ck_
oh, right, the first example linked there might be of some use to contrapunctus: https://vimeo.com/142670997
10:39:33
jackdaniel
Some people reported that output in html may lag behind js console, so it is worth opening it; in firefox C-S-i ;; this is a proof of concept, not merged to develop