Monday, October 24, 2011

Thinking about and Picturing Places and Events in Time



Long ago a perceptive acquaintance suggested that time lines are not enough. Space-time lines are needed, he said. He had a point.






These particular space-time lines are designed to show, not the movement of things in time, but to show events over time associated with specific places (lots).

A more sophisticated version of this idea would have four dimensions (and would facilitate visualizing the movement of things and persons in space).


  • But some or many events associated with specific places happen in other places. Tricky complications.



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    The dynamic evidence page

    Evidence marshaling software MarshalPlan

    It's here: the law of evidence on Spindle Law. See also this post and this post.

    1 comment:

    Unknown said...

    Other people have studied "multidimensional timelines" in some depth. See Austen Rainer, Representing the behaviour of software projects using multi-dimensional timelines, Information and Software Technology, Volume 52, Issue 11, November 2010, Pages 1217-1228, ISSN 0950-5849, 10.1016/j.infsof.2010.06.004. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095058491000114X) The paper is also available as a downloadable pdf document: https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/4814/1/904112.pdf