On 7/22/13 4:41 PM, Robert J. Lang indited:
(*) Of course my first question only applies if one uses strict left-to-right, row-by-row placement of steps, which I prefer, but I know a fair number of diagrammers use the "start at the top left, then wander around to fill up the page, using a gray bar behind to show the flow." Both have their merits. We need a short name for the latter placement, though. I hereby coin the name "drunken boustrophedon," but I will, of course, defer to common usage if there's already a name out there.
Huh, I've always thought of them as (sloppy) Hilbert Curves, preserving the locality of one instruction/diagram and it's antecedent and subsequent steps. But I concede the boustrophedon is the more obscure term. It does seem to imply that half of the diagrams would have to be mirror images though... Hmmm.... -=D'gou
