ReRe: [zigzag] Folding spreadsheets | How clones work

[Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi--

Your thought:

>OK, I think I get it.  You would clone the whole spreadsheet.
>The individual cell contents would be maintained in the orginal
>dimensions of the spreadsheet.  In the clone dimension, each
>and every cell would be copied but their would be no contents
>in the cells themselves (or there might be a cell reference
>indicting where the cell contents are maintained).  
>What would be copied would be all the horizontal and vertical 
>links from the spreadsheet.  And each empty cell in the clone 
>dimension would have a link to the orginal contents along the 
>clone dimension.

Very original and possibly useful, but you've got it backward.

A clone cell doesn't have the connections of its master,
 only the contents.  So the guaranteed same contents can be
 in more than one place.  If you want to link those contents
 in the same dimension twice, you clone them.  Right now the
 visualization is crude, but it'll get better.

Best, Ted


At 12:27 PM 9/10/99, you wrote:
>At 05:07 PM 10/09/99 +0900, you wrote:
>>Hi-- 
>>
>>Hint: rearrangements are what clones are for.
>>
>>Best, Ted
>>
>OK, I think I get it.  You would clone the whole spreadsheet.
>The individual cell contents would be maintained in the orginal
>dimensions of the spreadsheet.  In the clone dimension, each
>and every cell would be copied but their would be no contents
>in the cells themselves (or there might be a cell reference
>indicting where the cell contents are maintained).  
>What would be copied would be all the horizontal and vertical 
>links from the spreadsheet.  And each empty cell in the clone 
>dimension would have a link to the orginal contents along the 
>clone dimension.
>
>Then in the clone dimension you are free to do rearrangements.
>I would assume you would have a tool which would break or create
>an entire column or entire row of links.
>
>This solution sounds elegant enough.  I am gaining more confidence
>in the zzspace concept.
>
>To make it complete, all there is left to duplicate is the ability
>to make a heading stand still while you are scrolling through 
>contents.  This would require a new window in zzspace (per axis) 
>and a function to freeze a cell.  Probably something that will 
>appear in future versions of zigzag.
>
>By the way, I think a good definition of zzspace would be this:
>"ZZspace consists of cells which can contain text, pictures,
>sounds or other media.  These cells can have as many as two links
>(in a positive or negative direction) per dimension."
>
>Until I figured that out zzspace didn't make much sense to me.
>
>
>Brent
>
>
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