Starting Up High Path
Developing Structure
Behind the HyprLink structure stands a
structural system: definitions and rules to which
the structure should conform.
Development of structure means that the definitions and rules
are subject to change.
This High Path: (headings A through I)
- begins with the HyprLink structure
- presents a structural system that generates it
- extends the structural system
- builds and analyzes ambiguity structures with the extended system
A. Focussing on essentials
- Begin with the HyprLink diagram for the page-link structure of this website;
- Strip off the names: each page is identifiable through a unique pattern of
connections to other pages;
- Remove the pages "Entry" and "Pagelist,"
marked in brown and light blue, respectively
(I call these useful but superficial pages wrappings. They
are descriptive packaging and finding aids);
- Remove also "Author" and "Website,"
marked in orange. These pages have
conceptual substance, but do not have enough
hypertext connections to other pages in the graph.
(Two are the minimum, and these must be in addition
to links to wrappings).
B. First observations of form
You can switch the order of pages along the
diagonal and nothing of importance changes:
- Switching two pages along the diagonal is the same as
(1) switching the two corresponding rows; and (2) switching the
two corresponding columns;
- The connections between pages are all that matters to the device;
- Some patterns of strokes express important features of structure, e.g., the
"five-petal blossoms" that mark the heart of Water
Trail and Ridge Route: these do not depend on the order of
pages along the diagonal (but some arrangements display them more clearly);
- Some patterns of strokes are only
accidents of a particular diagonal arrangement, e.g. the "echelon"
structure of Exupery-Rudra-Goethe.
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All materials copyright by Robert Kovsky, 1997.