On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:10:34 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> But DAG's are > significantly better than general graphs in organizing and > understanding data: I disagree. That assumes that all relationships are hierarchical, which is not true. But I think we can move on. Your earlier statement > Interestingly, there is an important connection between the recent > Aha's and general mind maps. > > At the data level, a general (not-necessarily-acyclic) directed graph > can have any node appear in its child list. Now that positions are > banished from drawing code, drawing code can allow general graphs > also. made me think that there was new potential for making the "link to *any* other node" problem simpler / more leo native. But perhaps not. Two useful things from this discussion: - for the type of exploratory problem inspection for which I want these "graphs", I think a list of all parents on each clone (in a context menu or similar) would be very helpful, and I don't think that has any impact on anything. - I think it might be possible to "save" undirected cyclic graphs to "the leo file cabient" :) using only clones to represent the links that DAGs can't represent, but I'm not sure yet. Cheers -Terry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
