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Download: Tech Demo (2006-04-18) for Linux, Win32 and MacOSX
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Thanks to a hint on netznetz.net about the wonderful processing, I was able to stitch together a first working draft of Rhizome Navigation with a three dimensional graph.

_{It is not working yet as an applet embedded in the site, because unfortunalety it's seems not too easy to create an applet using openGL. I'm working on that.} ...it works now! and there are still downloads for Linux, Win32 and MacOSX with a test application.

Legend

In 2003, when reading Deleuze' and Guattari's MillePlateaux while staying in Greece for three months (and drinking Vodka at 10am when a good friend told me that Johnny Cash died) I came up with the idea of Rhizome Navigation. I did the following draft back then.

My intention was to visualize data through analyzation of user behaviour. Finally the example application (the image at the beginning is an actual screenshot from the application) does excatly that. It renders the relations between single Pages from this Wiki by analyzing how links where used and how long visitors stayed on a page. A page is represented by a box and the corresponding title, a link is displayed by a line between two page-boxes. If a link was used more often, the line gets shorter and thicker, bringing the two page-boxes closer together.

In the test program you can use the mouse and shortcuts to navigate through the graph. This is far from perfect of course. I think most essential in improving the way we read and use this kind of three dimensional graph are the available tools to navigate it. So, it's nice that I made it this far, but it is just the beginning.

WalterRafelsberger

References / thanks to

processing - initiated by BenFry and CaseyReas
OCD Library - by KristianLinnDamkjer
Physics Library - by JeffreyTraerBernstein
Billboard Class - by cchoge

Feedback and Support

If you have questions or feedback regarding Rhizome Navigation please head over to the discussion boards at berlio.de or contact me directly.

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