SIMILE Team,
I'm currently working with professor Stephen Jacobs at RIT on a project 
that will detail the origins of motion capture in an attempt to spur 
more innovation through understanding the methods of creating previous 
innovations.  The Timeline and Exhibit tools seem to be quite useful for 
this application.  After brainstorming about the best way to convey this 
information however, I feel a tree diagram/ timeline of predecessors and 
descendents would be ideal.  I am not terribly familiar with the 
Timeline API as there's a lot to sift through, but hoped you would be 
able to shed light on the amount of work it would take to repurpose 
Timeline to do this. 

As of now the functionality I'm looking at here is to have three kinds 
of connections: a weak link, medium link, and strong link (as to more 
accurately portray the sources of innovations).  All of these 
essentially different colored lines connecting the events on a Timeline.
I'm assuming from what I have seen exhibit do that if timeline could be 
repurposed to do this, that a user could dynamically change the timeline 
to show only the predecessors and decendants of a certain innovation.

I appreciate any help or information you can give me.

-Adam Butterworth
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