newbie question about morphs

Rosemary Michelle Simpson rms at cs.brown.edu
Wed May 30 17:16:11 UTC 2001


The world I am creating is a spatial hypermedia environment called 
ConceptLab that provides multiple POVs and multi-dimensional 
views over the same set of objects, on the screen at the same 
time.  For example, a Person instance can be simultaneously part 
of an Institution instance, a Paper instance, a Project instance, and 
a Concept instance, as well as being itself, a Person instance, and 
all of these can be on the screen at the same time.  This is true for 
all ConceptLab objects.  

In addition, a given instance can contain multiple pointers to another 
specific instance at different levels.  For example, "Catherine 
Marshall" (a Person instance) can appear multiple times at several 
levels as part of the "Spatial Hypertext" Concept instance.

If I understand correctly what seems to be true about composite 
morphs - that a given morph can be embedded in one and only one 
composite morph - then I cannot use Morphic to model my world 
and must instead work with MVC.  Is this correct?

Thanks,

R.





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