Example nodal structures

About the diagrams

Nodes and list-items

All nodes are list items in a list space (a node space is a subset of a list space), this distinction has been indicated in the diagrams by making the nodal-list-items white and the non-nodal-list-items gray.

Arrows

All list-items are composed of three list item keys which are each an index to another list-item. Note that the indexes refer to an entire list item of three keys, not to an individual key within an item. In the diagrams, it appears that the arrows point to a particular list-item-key, but this is not so, its a limitation of the current diagrams - i.e. all arrows point from a list-item-key to a list-item.

Collaboration

This is an article for discussing and displaying various nodal structures and examples. These diagrams are being made online with Gliffy, login with email address aran@organicdesign.co.nz and password project to modify or create new nodal diagrams. After you've made a new diagram, save it in gliffy so you can keep working on it later, and export as a PNG to upload into Organic Design. I prefer to crop them and give them a transparent background before uploading, you can do this in photoshop by creating a selection from one of the R,G or B channels, invert the selection, delete the background layer, create a new layer fill the selection black. Then save for web as a 24-bit PNG with transparency.

Nodal loops

This is example shows a complete loop of six nodes made from NEXT and nodePREV nodal associations. The NEXT and PREV are the first two traversable node indexes which translate to the two single-bit paths.

This example shows how a single path of two successive 1's (called TEST in this example) doesn't conflict with two successive NEXT (1) traversals. It's because traversal is a list space operation, but loops are formed from associations in node space.