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Hello Gareth,

I watched the essential rendering several times. It has a wonderful dynamic appearance. But I wonder what it actually shows. I see Julian bounding about, unfixed in position. And I see Gareth streaking in and out very quickly. I seem to have missed Mary completely, but I know her contributions were many. So my questions would be two, or three:

1) Wouldn't it be better to have a row, say on screen left, that was static and represented contributors, that would fade in and out with rays directed toward development, rather than have the "rotational" view where developers revolve around their creations?

2) Is it even possible to have such a rendering or is what can be done totally software dependent, and thus biased by the software POV? and

3) What do you draw from the dynamic animation that impresses you? After watching five times I do not see anything that represents order or Meliorism. It just seems like a random linear progression, more like the "drunken walk" of Stephen J. Gould (aka random walk).

This is not a criticism. It just gives me a different view of development with more of a "random than intentional" quality to it. What do you think? Is that what actually happens or am I missing something?

Rod

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