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Nov. 30, 2007 Meeting
- Weiguang demonstrated the latest verion that is now drawing lines to show collocation of words. This is slowing the system down.
- We discussed how we could speed it up and decided to optimize later. Lets get the visual design right first.
- This may also be an opportunity for parallelizing the code.
- We discussed how this might look if we had a large resolution display. What happens with perception when there are parts of the display that are in the users visual peripheral vision?
- We discussed a next design iteration that maps the words around a tube using a weighted distribution graph. Imagine for each of the keywords we had a distribution graph that travelled up a tube. The word would appear at the weighted centre of that line. This might, however mean that most words were around the middle of the tube.
- We discussed the importance of the starting animation that leads to the final visualization. The animation (or in the case of Frankenstein, "re-animation") serves the following purpouse:
- It introduces them to the text - they see it start slow and can read the first few lines
- By seeing what is being graphed they can understand the visualization in an informal way - this then serves to de-mystify the visualization
- The evolution of the words (their position and what they link to) is itself interesting as it is a form of machined reading that shows the changing vocabulary. This is extremely interesting to humanists.
- A tutorial on how to use the 3-D visualization - it should unfold in a way that makes obvious what are the affordances that can be used to manipulate the final visualization.
-- GeoffreyRockwell - 30 Nov 2007
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