Hi Ed,

Ed Miller wrote:
> I am interested in exactly the same scenario as Nathan.  I'm working 

The scenario you invented doesn't actually sound the same as Nathan's 
issue, which is more about controlling types display in Exhibit.

Your scenario actually sounds like you want to use Exhibit, instead of 
Timeline on its own, along with...

> more than $5 but less than $12?  Or were by a certain band?  I have 
> an inkling that I will be pointed in a direction to build my own 
> filter interface boxes and then requery the database in realtime 

...building your own filter interface boxes.  Exhibit can help you with 
specific attribute-value choices, like bands, but not with ranges, like 
$5-$12.

Sort of like this:

http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents-2.html

> instead (removing the event source from the band and then pointing to 
> a new one that uses the new query), but I really want to keep the 
> interface consistent with the rest of Simile.

If you come up with a slider/range facet and want to share it with the 
world, we'll be glad to make ourselves consistent with you.

> Another product we saw which implements this realtime filtering in an 
> elegant way is Timewall (you really *must* see the Java app running 
> at http://www.inxight.com/products/vizserver/tw/).  The problem with 
> that product is that the interface is clunky and uuuuuuuugly (as you 
> can see for yourself at the URL above).

I had javascript failures in every browser I tried to launch it in, but 
the mini screenshot's filtering seems to correspond to Exhibit pretty well.

-- 
Ryan Lee                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT CSAIL Research Staff  http://simile.mit.edu/
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