AmiWiki:Coordination/Maps for visualization

Software

 * FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/)
 * Hypergraph (http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/)
 * TouchGraph (http://touchgraph.com/)
 * Prefuse (http://prefuse.org/)
 * Visualisation example 1 (http://news.com.com/2104-1046_3-5905922.html?tag=st.bp)


 * some pictures [[image:graphcompanies.jpg|200px|left]] [[image:grapharticles.jpg|200px|left]] [[image:graphtopics.jpg|200px|left]]

Yes, I know that it is the same author. This soft has been written in flash by a French guy that I've contacted already but he is not willing to communicate anything about it....as it is not a public soft (not open source as well)...but for business soft
 * Visualisation example 2 (http://liveplasma.com/) &mdash; these are the guys who did the SWF it seems. Perhaps we should contact them.
 * Visualisation example 3 (http://www.ami-communities.net/bscw/wiki.cgi/572?op=mindmap) this is the hypergraph soft applied to the collaboration@work community folder. This has been done by Rudolf with the hypergraph java applet in using the "readers" command of the BSCW folder. There are 2 types of objects, members of the folders and documents, and lines linking members and documents, green lines are "read events" and red lines are "created events". Documents and members objects have a direct link to open users' info or doc's info. When pointing a document then the doc URL pop-up.

Visualization of members, topics, papers (M, T, P)

 * There's always a root node (starting node, centered node) (perhaps it need not always be centered.. just specially marked)
 * Ability to easily change root node ("control click" or similar)
 * When expanding nodes, new nodes for display should be selected according to some user-determined criteria
 * Node expansion criteria might include:
 * depth
 * is M, is P, is T
 * is of topic T (for papers and members ("is interested in T"))
 * is of communty C (topics are categorized in communities, we might use that)
 * (general) is of type X.. what types do we/should we have?
 * Display mode: see the visualisation example with the news.com big picture where articles, topics and companies are different types of elements and links that can be removed from the graph (screen). If you point the mouse on an article then it proposes to either read the article or center the graph on this article (then the other articles come related to that one into a re-display of the elements). If you point on one company then it proposes to know more about that company or to center the graph on that company. If you point on one topic it proposes to know more about that topic or to center the graph on this topic. Object types and links have different colors. It looks pretty nice......for sure the graph is not that big as he has a limited nbr of elements.