Archive for the ‘Flowchart’ Category

DRAKON-Erlang: Visual Functional Programming

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

DRAKON-Erlang: Visual Functional Programming

DRAKON is a visual programming language developed for the Buran Space Project.

I won’t repeat the surplus of adjectives used to describe DRAKON. Its long term use in the Russian space program is enough to recommend review of its visual techniques.

The DRAKO-Erlang project is an effort to combine DRAKON as a flow language/representation with Erlang.

A graphical notation for topic maps never caught on and with the rise of big data, visual representation of merging algorithms could be quite useful.

I am not suggesting DRAKON-Erlang as a solution to those issues but as a data point to take into account.

Others?

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Pulp Fiction presented in chronological order

Sunday, June 24th, 2012

Pulp Fiction presented in chronological order

Nathan Yau reports:

Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction twists and turns through plot lines and time. Designer Noah Smith untangled the story and put it in a linear flowchart.

Just the sort of thing you will need if you want to experiment with topic mapping “Pulp Fiction.”

And if not that, certainly an amusing way to begin the week.

Makes me wonder what untangling Downton Abbey would take?

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Flowchart: Connections in Stephen King novels

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Flowchart: Connections in Stephen King novels by Nathan Yau.

For your modeling exercise and amusement, a flowchart of connections in Stephen King novels (excluding the Dark Tower series). I not sure what impact excluding the Dark Tower series has on the flowchart. If you discover it, please report back.

Topic map and other semantic modeling groups could use this flowchart as the answer to Google employment questions. ;-)

Speaking of modeling, I wonder how many degrees of separation there are between characters in novels?

And how would they be connected? Family names, places of employment, physical locations, perhaps even fictional connections?

That could be an interesting mapping exercise.

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