{"id":50254,"date":"2016-05-19T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50254"},"modified":"2016-05-22T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-22T16:36:27","slug":"on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=50254","title":{"rendered":"On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; on the rich visual similarities between two diagrams from widely separated topic areas ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think we always appreciate just how similar <strong>graph-based mappings<\/strong> are to one another &#8212; or why the <strong>HipBone-Sembl Games<\/strong> are therefore so closely analogous to so many other graph-based mappings of the world around us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ARPANET-Washingmachine-DQ-tablet.png\" alt=\"ARPANET Washingmachine DQ tablet\" width=\"600\" height=\"870\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ARPANET-Washingmachine-DQ-tablet.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/ARPANET-Washingmachine-DQ-tablet-207x300.png 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This particular pairing of images struck me today when <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/New_Narrative\/status\/733418073655414784\"><strong>Mike Walker<\/strong> tweeted <del datetime=\"2016-05-22T16:35:04+00:00\">it<\/del> the Arpanet map<\/a> in quoting a <a href=\"http:\/\/This is what the internet looked like when it was first invented\"><strong>World Economic Forum<\/strong> post<\/a> &#8212; and the memory it called up was another image I found, who knows where, quite a few years ago, of the workings of a washing machine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We really have two tips of the iceberg of a hugely pervasive language of node-and-edge-based graphs here.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Previous posts in this series:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2014\/03\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-preliminaries\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: preliminaries<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2014\/03\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-two-dazzlers\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: two dazzlers<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2015\/08\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-three\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: three<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sembl.net\/2015\/09\/on-the-felicities-of-graph-based-game-board-design-four\/\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: four<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=47254\">On the felicities of graph-based game-board design: five<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related posts, overlapping with those above:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48634\">Graph-types 1: sample graphs and boards<\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=48591\">Graph-types 2: towards a universal graphical mapping language<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I expect there&#8217;s more but that&#8217;s what a quick scan brought up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; on the rich visual similarities between two diagrams from widely separated topic areas ] . I don&#8217;t think we always appreciate just how similar graph-based mappings are to one another &#8212; or why the HipBone-Sembl Games are therefore so closely analogous to so many other graph-based mappings of the world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,134,346,811,627,644,319,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-computers","category-connectivity","category-darpa","category-doublequotes","category-graphical-thinking","category-map","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50254"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50519,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50254\/revisions\/50519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}