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
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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