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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> A synchronistic chain of events lead me to FreeMind
> <http://FreeMind.sourceforge.net/>.
>
> Although not exactly the same as TouchGraph (perhaps better), it is in
> java and has a .jar explorer for browsers.  It is also in active
> development, popular, and open source.  Not exactly sure it is what we
> want but it looks neat.
After first 5 min glance at it. And playing with
        http://freemind.sourceforge.net/PublicMaps.html

I like it. Seems much cleaner interface than touchgraph,
and actually allowed me to answer a question very quickly,
faster than I could have done with a standard FAQ.

The one thing which is really different to touchgraph
is that it only does trees rather than full graphs.
So you can't do triangles

        / node B
       /      |
    node A    |
       \      |
        \  node C

A good example of things you could not do can be found in
Figure 2 in
http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~acanas/Publications/CMapsVSWebPagesExp1/CMapsVSWebPagesExp1.htm

If this limitation is OK with stephanie, then I'd
definatly go with it over touchgraph.

        Rich
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