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Key for Dynamic Graphs


Each event has four types of information:
  1. When it happened.

  2. How far up it happened

  3. How far left it happened.

  4. How far away it happened.



Each of the four panels has time, the unifying thread. One static graph also has how up, another how left, a third how far away the events were/will be. The dynamic graph integrates all that information.

There are eight boundaries: past and future, up and down, left and right, near and infinitely far. All events that appear in the four graphs must be withing these eight constraints.
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