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"Mapping Science," WIRED January 97, Page 46 Posted by JP on January 03, 1997 at 11:33:05: In Reply to: Article suggestion...Virtual reality posted by June Neville on January 02, 1997 at 11:53:50: Following up my previous post in this thread, here's the reference to the 3D virtual reality story in this month's Wired. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have a computer that apparently is "reading" 3 million scholarly papers and creating a digital landscape that helps visualize the state of scientific research. The software plots 3D mountains and valleys that represent peaks and troughs of interest and connecting ridges between disciplines. I saw a Bell Labs site some time ago that called this sort of visualization from computer-generated data a "metaphorical world." Someday you'll be able to fly through synthetic virtual worlds that are metaphors for complex ideas and data sets. Cool.
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