Links connecting items being some kind of items themselves

Posted by quant
Sep 18, 2010 at 08:17 PM

vue seems interesting, but it doesn’t support one/two features that I consider crucial.
1. It offers many ways to reorganize map, but none of them reorganize data so that items connected to the selected item are moved closer to it to see crearly the connection on the small map. Imagine a big map, and you connect two items that are far way. You can fade away rest of the map, but the link goes through the whole map and everything is too small.
2. no attempt to position items to minimize text/items overlap.

Zman wrote:
>Zoot 6 is slowly taking over the funcitons of most of my other info toys…but its not
>great at visualization (neither is InfoQube’s Map view). I ran across an interesting
>program today and remembered this disucssion - check out “Visual Understanding
>Environment”
> >http://vue.tufts.edu/index.cfm
> >This has a lot of hidden power
>and in fact among other things provides for annotation of links between nodes - to
>include the ability to attach/link them to files or URLs. I’m playing with it to see if
>there is a way to import my PersonalBrain info to it cleanly (looks possible via XML).
>I’m impressed at the quality given that its open source. will play with export
>capabilites too.
> >I haven’t seen this discussed in this forum (though that does not
>mean it has not been mentioned)...Anybody used it before?
> >Zman
>(a long time lurker
>and first time poster with a very long and chronic CRIMPer habit MAC/PC/LINUX)