OK now we’re getting there. 

Here is the mind mapping wiki in 3D

Hover over a topic, and if it has a link, you’ll see an ‘open link’ button.  Click that to open the appropriate article in WikIT.

This is Topicscape WebView and it’s getting better all the time with user feedback, like the request to open web pages more easily.

You can fly, zoom, search and re-center the landscape on a different topic, just as with Topicscape itself.

There’s WebView Help here: http://www.topicscape.com/topicscape-wiki/index.php?title=WebView_Help but for an even shorter version try these:

• To search: Just type.
• To fly: Use keyboard cursor arrow keys (then add Shift, Alt or Ctrl).
• Press the Home key to return to the starting position.
• Slow zoom with + and - on the number pad.
• Dramatic Quickzoom: Hold Shift, then click on topic cones.
• Hover over topics to see …
  • details in the Details Panel,
  • an enter button, and
  • sometimes an “open link” button.
• Click a topic cone to reorganize the landscape around it.

Don’t forget you need an up-to-date driver for your 3D graphics hardware for WebView to work (just like Topicscape).  Here’s reference for Troubleshooting.

Roy

University of Dundee medical mind maps links in 3D information landscape on-line.  The first time you visit, please give the program time to download.

These Dundee Uni mind maps cannot be linked to directly, or downloaded, but a read-only viewer for the software needed can be accessed from a link at the same site and this allows the mind maps to be explored dynamically.  This Topicscape WebView shows what is available but you will have to go to the web site to view the maps themselves.  The structure in the 3D WebView reflects the way the maps are organized at that site.

Roy

The medical mind maps source Allergy Cases has maps about allergies and immunology.  Links to all the allergycases.org mind maps can now be found organized in an on-line 3D Topicscape.

Roy

I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago.  Now that I have permission from Peter Jones to use the lists on his pages of links organized according to Hodges’ Health Career Model, I can announce that it is on-line and live in the form of a read-only Topicscape.  You can search (just type) and visit the pages (links are in the details panel – just click).  Links to the four main pages of links in the Hodges’ Health Career Model site are in the four main topic cones: Intrapersonal, Political, Science, Sociology.

Give it time to load the Topicscape software first time.  Subsequent visits will be much quicker. 

For you to fly around and explore this you will need a PC with 3D graphics hardware with an up-to-date graphics driver (requirements here).

There’s a wiki page with some helpful pictures that explain the few things you need to know to get you flying and zooming with the best of them.

If you need any help, email me at r dot g at topicscape dot com.

Roy

Those of us who spend our lives thinking in 3D on computer screens – 3D mindmaps, here at Topicscape HQ - are always fascinated by the interaction with a 3D environment, displayed on a 2D computer screen.

Even more interesting than navigating in a 3D landscape is making a complex and detailed 3D object in the first place.            

At Brown University they’ve made significant progress.  There’s a piece at ZDNet about this – click here.  For the full paper at Brown’s, try this link.

Roy