Some of you may remember the Grapher program (http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/grapher/ ) that Eric Elder and I presented at SVG Open 2009, in Mountainview CA. In addition to allowing one to design and edit graphs (linked structures), it also allows the conversion of such a graph to a web site (in which nodes become pages, and links become... well... links!).
At any rate, my colleagues (Jake Weidman, Dr. Whitfield) and I have been wondering how people navigate abstract spaces, like web sites, games, or the web itself. When in ordinary Euclidean space (like the Earth), we tend to rely on gravity, familiar landmarks, and a "sense of direction" to get around. Suppose the familiar distances of a Euclidean space do not apply, but that the space is still a "metric space" in the sense of satisfying the mathematical definitions of such. How then do humans get around? Anyhow, we're beginning the first of a series of experiments about navigation of finite non-Euclidean spaces and wonder if you might participate as an experiment to help us answer some of these fundamental questions. If you're willing please go to http://cs.sru.edu/~ddailey/splash.htm and explore some (or all) of the spaces there. Science will be a much fuller place if you do! cheers David [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [email protected] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
