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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