It seems to me that this modeling could possibly represent meme intertia. Could the lines be represented as vectors, possibly showing the tendency of meme direction?
Nerd from Hell > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick Arnett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: David Brin > Subject: Better Brin-l network visualizations > > > Here are two more visualizations. They are based on people > with at least 25 > links and people with at least 15 links. Each shows the > connections between > the people who have the required number of links or more, and > everyone they > link (as initiators and responders to threads) to. Icons are > very tiny, but > it's a face for initiating a thread and a pair of people for > responding. > The face looks light-colored and the pair is blue. (Just > looked closely and > I guess the icons are invisible on the 15-link image.) On > the 15-link page, > which is very dense, I've mostly place thread initiators on > the top and > left, responders on the bottom and right. However, there are linkage > people, so to speak, toward the center. They generally > connect to at least > three of the people on the periphery. The major connecting > people are along > the top and bottom. I've tried to place each person as initiator and > responder opposite, top and bottom, for these major connector folks. > > http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l-network-15-links.jpg > http://www.mccmedia.com/brin-l-network-25-links.jpg > > The lines are more fuzzy than I'd like, because it's jpeg. > I'll see if I > can't get a reasonably small file by limiting the palette. > But not now. > Time to get back to work that pays off in the short term... > > Nick > >
