ConnectorMorph, Mind-Mapping and Concept-Mapping
Dan Ingalls
Dan.Ingalls at disney.com
Sat Sep 30 17:21:21 UTC 2000
While Morphic may not be designed specifically for embedded semantic information, it's really easy to experiment with this using the
setProperty: #propertyName toValue: value
valueOfProperty: #propName
protocol (Morph>access properties). I would think this would be adequate for playing around. If you get serious, then you'll probably want to develop a whole semantic network formalism, and just use morphic as a viewer for that.
- Dan
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Joshua Channing Gargus <schwa at cc.gatech.edu> wrote...
>I agree that Squeak is the best current platform to implement these
>ideas. However, I don't think that it is sufficient as-is. The
>main reason is that there is no semantic information associated
>with a given morph. Concept maps that you make with simple morphs
>are difficult to traverse programmatically. I suppose, for example,
>that you could say that the amount of "redness" in a connector
>represents the strength of the connection, and traverse the morphs
>comprising the concept map based on this type of information.
>However, this is much more difficult and unclear than embedding
>semantic information in the components of the concept map from the
>start.
>
>On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 08:31:59PM +0200, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>> At the beginning of this month Ned Konz sent a change set with a
>> connector morph to this list. Together with the recent additions by Dan
>> Ingalls (selecting multiple morphs and undo) Squeak is
>> now quite a nice mind-mapping tool. Over the more graphically
>> polished versions of this kind of software it has the tremendous
>> advantage that the map can be traversed programmatically be writing
>> scripts.
>>
>
>Are you talking about EToy scripts, or regular Smalltalk scripts?
>I think that it would be great to integrate a concept mapping tool
>with the EToy scripting system.
>
>Joshua
>
>> Hoping that this feedback might be useful for someone
>>
>> Hannes Hirzel
>>
>
>--
>
> -Joshua Gargus (schwa at cc.gatech.edu)
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