I had seminar with a professor who always likes to draw charts and diagrams of the theoretical concepts we've been discussing. For this week's topic I reviewed some of his and my own old diagrams. I spent more time thinking about the animation of the diagram sequences, which could make a really vivid demonstration, only I have no chance to try my hand on it at this moment. And I decided to explore more tools than working on digitalizing these diagrams.

Unfortunately, my Mac couldn't run the Neatline nor the timemap, and Raw just wouldn't accept the text I put in. I wanted to create something with the timemap, which could combine the temporal and geographical visualizations at the same time. I'd like to try marking out the time and space of the poems/works/films of one poet/writer/director during a certain period or his/her entire career. But it's just incompatible with my computer. The WorldMap can be also very powerful, but it requires more data input.

One thing comparatively more presentable is with the Textexture. It's not listed as a major tool but I like its visualization of a text, which I think combines some topic modeling and some Gephi-like network analysis. And it's very user-friendly. I tried with the first part of Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons, the "Objects," and think this visual performance of chromatics and networks is thematically and spiritually in tune with this singular poetry book, which also emphasizes on colors, single object/word, the inter-referential pointing gestures between texts, on disjunction, permeation, and reconnection.