Visualizing alternative stories through manipulation of animation design options

Middle East Peace Potential through Dynamics in Spherical Geometry (Part #5)

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The purpose is to enable people to experiment interactively with various "stories", especially in the two-dimensional territorial occupation phase. Clearly some options privilege one framework and place the other at a disadvantage. The options could could be seen like a musical keyboard in which the challenge is to render elegant the relationships between the two by manipulating the many combinations of parameters. The animation offered as a demo is the consequence of one set of design choices. Clearly many others are possible. The animation could itself be improved in a variety of ways with greater expertise..

Interactive design options in composing a story
Option	5-fold Islamic Star	6-fold Star of David
Generating symbol	change visibility (variable) change "pulse" rate	change visibility (variable) change "pulse" rate
Polygonal "vehicle" container: line width	thin to invisible thick	thin to invisible thick
Polygonal "vehicle" container: colour	neutral (black) alternative colour alternating colour ("blinking")	neutral (black) alternative colour alternating colour ("blinking")
Polygonal "vehicle" container: phasing visibility	permanent periodic unpredictable/random	permanent periodic unpredictable/random
Symbol	outline (optional width) filled	outline (optional width) filled
Symbol colour	conventional red alternative colour alternating colour ("blinking")	conventional blue alternative colour alternating colour ("blinking")
Symbol: phasing visibility	permanent periodic unpredictable/random	permanent periodic unpredictable/random
Space prior  to "occupation"	polygon (absent/present) symbol (absent/present)	polygon (absent/present) symbol (absent/present)
Space "occupation" phase	do before 6-fold do concurrently do after 6-fold	do before 5-fold do concurrently do after 5-fold
Space "occupation" rate	slowly (encroachment?) faster (invasion/rockets?)	slowly (encroachment?) faster (invasion/rockets?)
Consequence of site "occupation"	polygon (empty/colour filled) symbol (absent/visible)	polygon (empty/colour filled) symbol (absent/visible)
On completion of all "occupation" (A)	make symbols (dimly) visible blink symbols (randomly) symbols (occasionally) visible empty polygons (or colour fill)	make symbols (dimly) visible blink symbols (randomly) symbols (occasionally) visible empty polygons (and colour fill)
On completion of all "occupation" (B) -- success scenario	highlight (blink) connectivity lines through 5-fold and 6-fold outline symbols	highlight (blink) connectivity lines through 5-fold and 6-fold outline symbols
On completion of all "occupation" (B) -- success scenario	highlight (blink) connectivity lines through clusters of 5-fold and 6-fold outline symbols	highlight (blink) connectivity lines through clusters of 5-fold and 6-fold outline symbols
On completion of all "occupation" (D) -- failure scenario	move 5-fold polygons back to origin, emptying site locations	move 6-fold polygons back to origin, emptying site locations

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