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Display philosophy

the appearance of the Visual Ontology consists essentially in two modalities:

modality	explanation
browsing in advance:	from the initial ROOT node, a hold shows the next hierarchy, till reaching a leaf image display is down-up: * after the hold on a node, this latter will appear in the middle, * the incoming relations on the bottom, always together with a back reference to the ROOT * on top, a small number of outgoing relations plus a partition indicator of others connected
create a path:	clicking on a leaf image (without incoming relations), the display is expanded: * a possible and multiple PATH back to the ROOT explains the essential relations leading to this leaf * an arbitrary right-click on one of these intermediate nodes shows its number of connections in a partition node * a hold displays its normal browsing environment the relations stop always at a “+” relation, which would lead to unsignificant nodes, like initial letters for the general interface actions goto the last version