>On Sun, 17 Dec 1995 HankHeath@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Many of the models for thinking and working that we compose are based upon
>> two dimensional diagrams. As a mathematician, I have worked with
>> multi-dimensional diagrams, but the business and educational world is
>> still stuck with 2-D (the chalk board or the white board). Do you feel
>> that this has restricted the ideas of the model-makers?
>
>Yes, I think this 2-D base has restricted the ideas of the model-makers.
>
>How to develop tools that let people compose multi-dimensional diagrams?
>That's a subject for another message.
>
>There's multidimensional databases and VRML right now. When their
>technologies converge, I think there will be a lot of interesting
>programs out there. The processing power is out there....
>
>Andrew Moreno <amoreno@broken.ranch.org>
I'll bite on this one and suggest the work of Edward Tufte for examples of
how to add dimensions to the 2-d ('flatlands') paper/screen. His first
book (Visual Display of Quantitative Data) is a lengthy treatis on the
sunject. The second book (Envisioning Information) is more concise and
contains more examples.
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Host's Note: I think Tufte's books are wonderful. For web readers, here
are some URL's for material on Tufte:
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/TechReports/NASreports/NAS-94-002/NAS-94-002.paper.html
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~ddgarcia/tufte.html
and my copy of Tufte's book says "avail only by direct order, Graphics
Press, Box 430, Cheshire, CT 06410.
-- Rick Karash, rkarash@karash.com, host for learning-org
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