On Sun, 17 Dec 1995 HankHeath@aol.com wrote:
> Many of the models for thinking and working that we compose are based upon
> two dimensional diagrams. As a mathematician, I have worked with
> multi-dimensional diagrams, but the business and educational world is
> still stuck with 2-D (the chalk board or the white board). Do you feel
> that this has restricted the ideas of the model-makers?
Yes, I think this 2-D base has restricted the ideas of the model-makers.
How to develop tools that let people compose multi-dimensional diagrams?
That's a subject for another message.
There's multidimensional databases and VRML right now. When their
technologies converge, I think there will be a lot of interesting
programs out there. The processing power is out there....
Andrew Moreno
-- Andrew Moreno <amoreno@broken.ranch.org>