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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] More geeky (and graphy) stuff
  • Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 22:39:41 +0100

Bear Kaufmann wrote:
On Tuesday, August 2, 2005, at 12:39 PM, Chad Knepp wrote:


Bear Kaufmann writes:

Hi all,

Congrats on the letter from Encarta to PFAF. It'd definitely increase
visibility to a lot of users (and draw eyes from folk looking for the
name of cabbage).

Last night I searched around, and played with some graphing engines,
and producing dynamic XML from the database on the fly.
Here, I'm finding all the uses used by a plant Family, then graphing it
out. You can start to see the connections/relatedness in terms of use.

Check out:
http://www.permaculture.info/test/graph/perfuse_dev.php

Proof of concept. Best proof? Hardly, but a start.

Very nice, Richard did a demo app like this earlier. I'm curious as
to how it connects to the info. Static file? I think xml-rpc will be
pretty handy for connecting the data to a GBI part.


Since I was having trouble connecting to the DB on ibiblio, yes, 3 static files.
On localhost, you can enter any family into the url (family=), and get dynamic results.

Hmm, is Richard's still around?

Yep at

http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/pcplantdb/PlantFamilyTree/PlantFamilies.html

it was just the families without adding any use info.

Theres are other ways I'd do this stuff, which avoid all the lables jigging about the whole time. Hyperbolic trees are my favorite. I can search through the archive some discussion on this about 19-23 Oct 03.

Rich




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