Returning to the topic at hand. I question if animation is necessary to convey temporal dimensions in a data set. Temporal data can be presented as a series of small multiples, a la Tufte:
http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2005/12/images/1severe-storm-animation.gif Alternatively, something as simple as making use of a browser's scroll bar can also convey temporal changes: http://www.simonhoegsberg.com/we_are_all_gonna_die/slider.html On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:34 AM, sophia parafina <[email protected]> > wrote: > > may I suggest chrononanism as a more mellifluous term? > > > What brilliance and mellifluent. Chrononanism, goes hand over fist > with temporiapism. Ahh... the ailments that we men suffer at the alter > of geospatiotemporal. > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Joshua Lieberman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Time animations can be fun, but never seem to me as useful in the end as > >> ways of including time as a dimension, the slider, the timeline, or the > >> timesection (time along one axis, an aggregate spatial dimension such as > a > >> path or list of places along the other.). > >> > >> Hmm... chronobopping? > >> > >> --Josh > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ > Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ > Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) http://www.osgeo.org/ > Sent from: Madison Wisconsin United States. > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >
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