Johan Sundström wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Adam Butterworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
> That use case sounds like a better match for Exhibit than Timeline to
> me. Exhibit has a Timeline view, and offers facets (for instance an
> "innovation" facet) where you can dynamically pick a subset to show, i
> e data related to one invention.
>
> You can repurpose Exhibit's views to add your own views, and it's more
> or less getting easier (less code consuming) to do so by the day, at
> present. (I'm just about to dig into doing custom view crafting of my
> own and figure out how those work myself.)
>
> If David Huynh chimes in with more feedback, his opinions are more
> authoritative than mine. ;-)
>
Adam, you are looking for some sort of arrow / line rendering features
in Timeline, and that we currently don't have and won't have unless we
start to look into using SVG or Canvas to lay arrows and lines on top of
the current HTML-based rendering. Some people at the University of
Southampton has done this to some extent:
http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/13818/
David
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