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rbanerj
Making a Concept Map
May 2nd, 2010, 10:58am  
Hi,
I am new to processing and cannot find a demo in the processing-1.1 package that makes the shapes and structures that I want.

I am writing a neural modeling tool for a graduate school project. I want to make a concept map with animations. In a minute, I will post a message with a concept map in it.

Just an example. In my ideal concept map, every time someone clicks on a concept on the screen, each of its neighbors appears. They need not be there before. I have java code to fetch the neighbors (via RMI) which I can paste in at any time.

Does anyone have an example like this?
Thank you very much.
Rajat Banerjee
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rbanerj
Re: Making a Concept Map
Reply #1 - May 2nd, 2010, 10:58am  
Here is a concept map:
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TfGuy44
Re: Making a Concept Map
Reply #2 - May 2nd, 2010, 11:21pm  
Are you dealing with a directed graph, or a tree (in a tree, nodes only have one parent)


Edit:
http://jeanbauer.com/davila.html
This might be exactly what you want.
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« Last Edit: May 3rd, 2010, 12:40am by TfGuy44 »  
 
PhiLho 
Re: Making a Concept Map
Reply #3 - May 3rd, 2010, 1:47am  
For the record, Freemind is a well known Java concept map/mind mapping editor. Of course, it is probably more extended than what you need, but it shows the concept isn't that simple to code...

That Davila library is interesting. I see it uses the Toxiclibs to handle node spreading, another popular Processing library for that is Traer's one.

The goal isn't out of reach for an experienced programmer, but it won't be coded in a few hours either (make that days, longer for newbies...).
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rbanerj
Re: Making a Concept Map
Reply #4 - May 5th, 2010, 10:53am  
Hi Gentlemen,
Thanks for all the advice. Turns out it is easy to make one in Processing. Really easy... I'm still getting familiar with the library, but thought others may get use out of this, so here it is. I made it only 1-concept for now, do you see what i mean.

The code etc is at: http://www.hindoogle.com/blog/2010/05/concept-map-in-processing-library/

And the image it makes is:
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