Notes de Voyage - Tag - Collection2024-02-21T15:00:48+07:00urn:md5:0ac569c8584632d171c17d5f935a760bDotclearLearning Patterns on Duolingourn:md5:8eaef99ace3c09a28de8260e9da879b52020-06-05T18:15:00+07:002022-02-07T17:25:58+07:00MatthieuCollectionCreationLanguageVisualisation <p>This is a graph I made using Gephi to show the number of <a href="https://www.duolingo.com/" title="Duolingo">Duolingo</a> users learning which language from which. Colours represent language families.</p>
<p><br />English of course stands out as a hub. Duolingo users can learn any language from English, except Catalan and Guarani (from indigenous around Paraguay) which are learned from Spanish. Asymmetric drains are seen towards French, German, Japanese, Korean, and Italian to some extent. The network rather follows geographic proximity, with the notable exception of the Arabic>Swedish stream, accounting for the great effort of migrants to integrate Swedish society.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/20-06-05_Duolingo_map_with_legend.png" title="<img src="/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/20-06-05_Duolingo_map_vignette.png" alt="" />"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/20-06-05_Duolingo_map_vignette.png" alt="" /></a>
<br />(click on the graph for a bigger picture with explanations)
<br />Data review on June 2021 didn't show much change.</p>
<p>This is an example of semi-structured graph based on a data matrix. The interesting aspect of it is that the shape of the graph emerges from its inner structure, by optimizing the proximity and arrangement of the nodes linked together. Like letting the data spontaneously express itself and grow into a particular pattern.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157631145544682&set=gm.2632868806970032&type=3" hreflang="en" title="(Shared here on Facebook Duolingo group)">(Shared here on Facebook Duolingo group)</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2020/06/05/Learning-Patterns-on-Duolingo#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1819Bible lexicon: Strong Concordance with whole KJV in spreasheeturn:md5:f036cc6cac1e72d6729f6038a54abae12020-02-03T19:51:00+07:002020-07-04T19:07:54+07:00MatthieuCollectionLanguageSpiritualitySynthesis <p>Here is my worksheet about biblical lexicon, a clean compilation of various treasures i've found: Strong concordance lists for Hebrew and Greek with translation counts for KJV and NASV, along with the complete KJV with Strong numbers.
All in all, this allows word counts through the use of excel functions.
Enjoy!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Bible_Concordance_Strong.xlsx"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Bible.png" alt="" /></a>
<br />(Click on the picture to open the XLS worksheet)</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2020/02/03/Bible-lexicon%3A-Strong-Concordance-with-whole-KJV-in-spreasheet#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1817Etymology - Esperanta Vortorigino kaj Kompreneblecourn:md5:cbdc585fbff214e28de7f52d8e8091682019-09-26T20:56:00+07:002022-05-08T18:20:29+07:00MatthieuCollectionCreationLanguagePublicationSynthesis <p>Esperanto:</p>
<p>Mi kunhavas chi tie kelkajn datumojn pri la vortorigino de Esperanto. Mi surbazis de la laboro de Andras Rajki el jaro 2006. Li studis grupon de 4000 vortoj kaj serchis la similajn vortojn el la latina, franca, itala, germana, jidisha, nederlanda, angla, rusa, pola kaj lituana lingvoj. Tiuj lingvoj estas konsideritaj tiel "lingvoj de Zamenhofo" char estas la lingvoj kiuj Zamehof pli-malpli kapablis kaj vershajne uzis por krei la internacian lingvon.</p>
<p>Andreas Rajki studas per sia vortprovizo la kompreneblecon inter tiuj lingvoj. Lia samecaj kondichoj estas iom striktaj (<a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Eo_Rajki_2006_Esperanto_EDEL.docx">priskribitaj chi tie</a>) Ekzemple li jughas ke "perfekta" ne sufiche similas "perfetta", "distanco" ne sufiche al "distanza" aw "distantia", "historio" al "istoria", kaj "havi la "haben", aw "trinki" al "drink". Do oni povus rekalkuli pli grandajn porcentojn de interkomprenebleco se inkluzus tiajn prununcajn variajhojn.</p>
<p>En tiu bilda rezumo ni povas vidi kaj la granda plejparto de Esperanta vortorigino estas la franca kaj latina. Preskaw 80% devenas de la romanaj lingvoj. Sed plej interesa estas ke tiu vortaro tamen tre bone kompreneblas de la parolantoj el la germanaj aw slavaj lingvoj.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Eo_Rajki_EDEL_Etymology_Analysis.xlsx" hreflang="en" title="XLS workbook of Rajki lexicon and calculations"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Eo_Rajki_EDEL_Summary.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>English:</p>
<p>I'm sharing here some information about Esperanto etymology. The work is based on data published by Andra Rajki in 2006. He studied a set of 4000 words for which he looked for similar words from Latin, French, Italian, German, Yidish, Dutch, English, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian. Thos languages are considered "Zamehof languages" since Zamenhof knew them and probably used them to create the International Languages.</p>
<p>Andras Rajki studied the mutual intelligibility between these languages. His similarity conditions are somewhat strict (<a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Eo_Rajki_2006_Esperanto_EDEL.docx">details here</a>) He decided that "perfekta" wasn't similar enought to "perfetta", "distanco" neither to "distanza" or "distantia", "historio" to "istoria", and "havi to "haben", or "trinki" to "drink". We could then recalculate larger percentages of intelligibility if we'd include those variations of pronunciation.</p>
<p>In the picture we can see that the vast majority of Esperanto vocabulary comes from Latin and French. Nearly 80% come from Romance languages. However it is even more interesting to see that this lexicon is still well intelligible to speakers of Germanic or Slavic languages.</p>
<p><a href="https://aphil.1fr1.net/t3408p350-esperanto-3" hreflang="fr">Discussion ici en Français sur l'Atelier</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2019/09/26/Etymology-Esperanta-Vortorigino-kaj-Komprenebleco#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1826Musical Modes: compiled, analysed and comparedurn:md5:40e928104d46eac94801fea45b6967a22018-05-08T09:42:00+07:002018-06-19T15:01:57+07:00MatthieuCollectionColoursMusicSynthesis<p>After my <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2009/09/27/110-coup-de-tableau-sur-la-theorie-musicale" hreflang="fr">first attempt in 2009</a> to review the modes used in modern jazz, I'm deepening the analysis and including the 72 ragas from southern India.</p>
<p>The diagram shows which of the 12 semitones are used to build the musical scale, with colours indicating their natural consonances or tensions with the starting note.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20Modes.xls">excel sheet</a> gives all the data and functions.</p>
<p>Here are the 5 pentatonic modes built without semitone interval:
<a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2018/05/08/Musical-Modes%3A-compiled%2C-analysed-and-compared"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20modes%20pentatoniques.PNG" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>The pentatonic mode of Re# was used for the melody of <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2011/04/25/156-compo-l-ermite-de-l-himalaya">this 2011 composition</a>.
<br />The Indian raga KamaVardani was used in the last part of <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/12/14/Compo-%3A-Chronos">this 2015 composition</a> (Krishna talks!), and in <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2017/09/08/Compo-%3A">this one</a> (descending little devils..)</p> <p>Here are the 28 modes of modern jazz, starting with the 7 Greek modes. By shifting the starting note to each of the degree of the scale, we can form <em>systems</em> of 7 modes, sharing common structure and colours.
<img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20modes%20harmo%20et%20melo.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>The 7 Greek modes form a system with exceptional harmony between the notes:
<br /><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Cycle_Modes_Grecs.png" alt="" /></p>
<ul>
<li>fifths and fourths in blue, consonant</li>
<li>minor thirds and major sixth in green</li>
<li>major thirds and minor sixth in yellow-light-green</li>
<li>tritons in red, explosive!</li>
</ul>
<p>Here is this cyclical graph for the minor harmonic system, with more tensions. The lower half of the circle has the structure of whole-tone scale, and the upper half is like the diminished scale:
<img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Cycle_Modes_mineur_melodique.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Further on, here is the Neapolitan system and the modes with limited transpositions:</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20modes%20transpolim%20et%20penta.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>And finally, the massive set of 72 Indian ragas, with identification or similarities with other known modes if any:
<img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20Raga%20Melakartha%201-36.PNG" alt="" />
More !
<img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Tutoriel_Harmonie/Grille%20des%20Raga%20Melakartha%2037-72.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>This is being discussed <a href="http://noctaventures.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2117&start=0" hreflang="fr">here</a> in French.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2018/05/08/Musical-Modes%3A-compiled%2C-analysed-and-compared#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1804Personality Models: Myers-Briggs and othersurn:md5:9148da012a12336491f0fbce44da9cc62017-05-22T12:45:00+07:002022-03-25T15:20:03+07:00MatthieuCollectionPsychologySynthesis <p>Know Thyself!
<br />Direct experience of one's feeling and behavior is best, but some nerdy scientific or pseudo-scientific models of psychology can help putting words on it.</p>
<p>Personality models can be split into 2 categories: those with odd and even numbers of types.</p>
<p>The models with odd numbers (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enneagram_of_Personality" hreflang="en">Enneagram</a>, Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu_Xing" hreflang="en">5 Agents 五行</a>, 9 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Role_Inventories" hreflang="en">Belbin Team Roles</a>, etc.) define the personalities without analyzing them as mere combinations of aspects. They describe each of them as a whole that is more than just a sum of components: these are <strong>holistic approaches</strong>.</p>
<p>The models in even numbers by contrast are taking <strong>analytic approaches</strong>: they analyze the personalities as combinations of aspects, based on binary oppositions: Introvert/Extrovert, Active/Passive, Rational/Intuitive, Conservative/Progressive, Indirect/Direct, etc.</p>
<p>Following the tradition of Carl Jung in analytic psychology, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator" hreflang="en">Myers-Briggs Type Indicator</a> (MBTI), takes this analytic approach to a high degree, by defining 4 aspects:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Extrovert/Introvert</strong>: being with others stimulates us, or makes us uncomfortable and exhausted?</li>
<li>Mode of perception: <strong>Sensing/iNtuiting</strong>: do we sense the practical facts and objective reality, or do we intuitively get the big picture, and the underlying principles?</li>
<li>Mode of judgment: <strong>Thinking/Feeling</strong>: do we decide objectively based on logic and justice, or subjectively with empathy, forgiveness, and aiming at harmony?</li>
<li>Dominance between the 2 modes: <strong>Judging/Perceiving</strong>: need for plan and achievement within clear framework and deadlines, or comfortable with improvising in flexible environment?</li>
</ul>
<p>The combinations of the 4 pairs of letters (E/I, S/N, T/F, J/P) gives the 16 types. Selecting only 3 letters will define a pair of types, and 2 letters defines a group of 4 types (see comments below the diagram)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Psycho_MBTI.pptx"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Psycho_MBTI.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>I have tried to integrate into the above MBTI chart 4 other models:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.herrmannsolutions.com/what-is-whole-brain-thinking-2/" hreflang="en">Herrmann Whole Brain Thinking</a>, which seems to focus on the aspects Thinking/Feeling and Sensing/iNtuiting. Captions at the bottom of diagram, splitting into 4 columns.</li>
<li>The Greek <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_temperaments" hreflang="en">Four Temperaments</a>, related to my proposal of <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/12/07/Cardinal-Cycle%2C-a-universal-cultural-framework" hreflang="en">cardinal cycle</a>, which opposes Introvert/Extrovert, and Stable/Unstable. Captions on the right side of the diagram, splitting into 4 lines.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.discinsights.com/whatisdisc#.WSJ43DfaeSU" hreflang="en">DiSC Assessment</a>, which opposes Active/Passive and People/Task. Splitting the above diagram into 4 quarters.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keirsey_Temperament_Sorter" hreflang="en">Keirsey Temperament Sorter</a>, which is often presented in connection with the MBTI. It is represented by 4 shapes, with captions on the left side.</li>
</ul>
<p>There have been quite <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_models_of_personality#Table_of_theories_and_instruments_using_extroversion_and_people-task-orientation" hreflang="en">many 4-types personality models</a> across history, but matching the types one by one is often too direct. The above diagram uses the wider playground of the MBTI to compare the models more subtly.</p>
<p>So.. what about myself? You can try to classify me as INTP, but also ENTP when in contact with peoples, INFP and INFP when I listen more to my heart (these 4 types form a NP group), and also ISTP and ISFP at time when i get more pragmatic.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2017/05/22/Personality-Models%3A-Myers-Briggs-and-others#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1794Etymologie Indo-Européenne en Dictionnaireurn:md5:54e7be1004efb7d06a49c8cdbf4e269f2017-04-01T23:08:00+07:002017-05-14T19:15:15+07:00MatthieuCollectionLanguagePublication <p>Voici enfin une copie intégrale en PDF de ce dictionnaire plein de révélations, pour 10Mo seulement. Le texte est passé en reconnaissance de caractère et peut donc être recherché par mot-clef avec CTRL+F.</p>
<p>Grandsaignes d'Hauterive, <em>Dictionnaire des Racines des Langues Européennes</em> (1948)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Grandsaigne_1948_-_Dictionnaire_des_Racines_IE.pdf" hreflang="fr"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Grandsaigne_1948_-_Dictionnaire_des_Racines_IE.png" alt="" /></a>
<br />(Cliquez sur l'image pour ouvrir le pdf)</p>
<p>J'avais posté dans <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2014/06/15/Indo-European-Word-Roots-/-Racines-Indo-Europ%C3%A9ennes" hreflang="en">cet article</a> un début de <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Indo-European%20Roots.pdf" hreflang="en">résumé de ce dictionnaire</a>.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2017/04/01/Etymologie-Indo-Europeenne-en-Dictionnaire#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1788A Map for Sci-Fi Moviesurn:md5:0bf2d7de30a3c309c9eea83b7c721b452016-06-13T17:28:00+01:002017-02-20T16:33:01+00:00MatthieuCollectionFutureGuyFawkesHistoryMoviesScienceSynthesisVisualisation <p>Science Fiction is a broad church, made of many sub-genres. For me it is a wonderful source of inspiration, talking about the future, technology, philosophy, psychology, politics, etc.</p>
<p>In the map below, i've proposed some topics in green. Non-SF but still akin movies are in grey.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Movies.pptx" hreflang="fr" title="PowerPoint file"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Movies.png" alt="" /></a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/06/13/A-Map-for-Sci-Fi-Movies#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1772Bible quotes and summaryurn:md5:2a0cdaf8de476e71b3e1aa3a560b5d982016-03-27T17:12:00+01:002016-03-28T03:21:49+01:00MatthieuCollectionCreationSpiritualitySynthesis <p>Here is another working document, compiling Bible quotes by topics. The document also contains a Bible summary chapter by chapter. (so far 886 out of 1239 chapters) I don't guaranty the summary's fidelity, but it can come in handy to give a first overview!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Bible.xlsx"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Bible.png" alt="" /></a>
<br />(Click on the picture to open the XLS worksheet)</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/27/Bible-quotes-and-summary#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1762Composer Timeline: History and Musicurn:md5:b94d2e4de309efe17c02df36f18322d42016-02-05T04:40:00+00:002016-10-24T10:13:20+01:00MatthieuCollectionCreationHistoryMusicSynthesisVisualisation <p>Here is a working document i've prepared, showing major composers (133 so far), ranging from Renaissance until today, on a timeline with their lifetime and key compositions. That helps understanding how their style evolved along with their musical environment.</p>
<p>Click on the image below to open the Excel spreadsheet:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Composer_Timeline.xlsx" hreflang="en" title="to the XLS spreadsheet"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Composer_Timeline.png" alt="" /></a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/07/Composer-Timeline-History-and-Music#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1757Éducation Totale - Mapping out Educationurn:md5:dc935570062e0cdd8bc2f48276253b6e2015-11-20T16:13:00+00:002017-04-27T13:50:43+01:00MatthieuIdéesCollectionCreationDemainLanguagePsychologyScienceSpiritualitySynthesisVisualisation <p>The recent reading of the Wikipedia article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi" hreflang="en" title="Jedi">Jedi</a> (the Star Wars frenzy can spark meaningful thoughts!) has lead me to realize how various fields of teaching and education can complement each others. Jedi are said to be "Polymaths", a word implying the mastery of many fields of knowledge, and at the Renaissance, mastery of arts as well. Since Jedi, like most Asian monastic traditions, blend rather physical training and wisdom, I came out with the following map of education:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Education.pptx" hreflang="fr" title="PowerPoint file"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Education.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>The 4 fields of learning (Sport, Art, Science, Wisdom) are linked to 4 components of the person (Body, Heart, Mind, Soul), and nurture them with 4 types of food or accomplishment (health, beauty, science, peace).</p>
<p>Further, 4 types of historical teaching are proposed, giving emphasis on pairs of fields.</p>
<ul>
<li>Sport+Art : Antique education as proposed by Plato</li>
<li>Art+Science : Renaissance polymath, like Da Vinci</li>
<li>Science+Wisdom : Medieval scholastic</li>
<li>Wisdom+Sport : Asian monachism</li>
</ul>
<p>It is to be noted that back then, the definitions of the 4 fields were not as restrictive as shown here. For instance, Asian monks haven't excluded science but have been including part of it into their wisdoms.</p>
<ul>
<li>The horizontal axis is about Power: Can and Know, "Pouvoir et Savoir". By combining horizontally Sport and practical Sciences, we could also imagine another very pragmatic education model: a nation of robots with no emotions (Equilibrium) nor conscience ! (Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World)</li>
<li>The vertical axis is about Feeling: Conceive and Receive, The combination of Art and Wisdom: people alternating between nerdy passionate creation, and peaceful selfless bounty to one another.</li>
</ul>
<p>Maybe an accomplished man has to explore and balance all these fields?</p>
<p>I've integrated this map into the broader <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/12/07/Cardinal-Cycle%2C-a-universal-cultural-framework" hreflang="en">cardinal cycle</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/matthieu.napishtim/posts/10153433094594682" hreflang="en">Facebook post</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/11/20/%C3%89ducation-Totale-Trying-to-map-out-Education#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1747Hylian, a language with musical roots!urn:md5:1066013c1f3ceb3aa6a6ed25e84e96e62015-07-01T10:17:00+01:002015-07-01T10:17:00+01:00MatthieuLinguistiqueCollectionCreationHylianLanguageMusic <p>My constructed language now explores the possibility of links with the melodies of the Zelda universe, looking for known words and roots, and then extracting new roots to create new words!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Hylian.pdf" hreflang="en"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Hylian_Musical.png" alt="" /></a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/07/01/Hylian%2C-a-language-with-musical-roots%21#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1743Idea: Universe creation frameworkurn:md5:2674ff79cbf57a5cd3eee20122b64c382015-01-28T11:09:00+00:002015-04-01T04:55:06+01:00MatthieuIdéesCollectionCreationDrawingMusicPublicationSynthesisVisualisation <p>I've been thinking for a couple of years how the ideal creation framework could look like. Of course it depends on the type of creation. In my case, I would like to combine and interweave:</p>
<ul>
<li>Drawings and paintings representing places, events, characters</li>
<li>Music, for various places or contexts</li>
<li>Texts and poems, describing places, stories, feelings</li>
<li>Cooking recipes, technology descriptions</li>
</ul>
<p>The main building material would be the drawings, forming full-pages of visual environment. On these drawings there would be some URL links. Some would lead to other connected pages (moving to a nearby area, zooming into a particular region, zooming-out to the upper level), while some others would link to content, such as music or recipes, open in popup windows.</p>
<p>In practice, the universe creation would very simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Upload a full-page drawing.</li>
<li>Write a text narrative besides it.</li>
<li>Put tags on it like in facebook, with URL linking to content (mp3, pdf, etc.) or to other pages.</li>
</ol>
<p>The advantage of such framework is to aggregate the creative content into an interconnected system, that can grow organically from any of its parts! The visitor becomes an explorer who somehow interacts with the universe by choosing where to go and what to look at. It is inspired by the RPG-adventure video game style (Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc.).</p>
<p>Ideally, the framework would also feature comment threads on each page to let the visitors give feedback.</p>
<p>Now, comparing to what is available: Facebook allows to easily upload pictures and very intuitively place tags on it, but only to identify peoples. If those tags could contain any URL, that would do it! But no...
DotClear allows pages in WHTML format with comments, but the width seems limited to the blog page, and placing the tag on the picture would be difficult...</p>
<p>Any other software suggestions to enable this creative boom? Thanks!</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/01/28/Idea%3A-Universe-creation-framework#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1733Idea: FOAF Notepadurn:md5:0f202725c0b01518bf08b854655deee12014-09-02T07:42:00+01:002017-05-01T10:32:59+01:00MatthieuIdéesChineseCollectionDemainVisualisation <p>After quite some time thinking about RDF and semi-structured data, as well as making endless lists of Chinese words and characters, i've come to wish (and vainly looked for it) that some gizmo-App would enable the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Put items on an empty screen surface, in the form of label or boxes (contacts name, Chinese character, words, etc.)</li>
<li>Draw links between them (affinity, kinship, phonetics, meaning, shape, etc.)</li>
<li>Let the graph converge and structure itself according to the links</li>
</ul>
<p>To go further:</p>
<ul>
<li>Various types of links could be defined</li>
<li>Different link attractions could be defined, to give different results depending on priority (e.g. get a graph showing rather friendship than kinship, or rather meaning than phonetics)</li>
</ul>
<p>Anyone here with the skill, time, and/or passion for this ? Thanks !</p>
<p>Here is what a FOAF graph can look like:
<br /><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Illustrations/14-09_FOAF_diagram.png" alt="" /></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2014/09/02/Idea%3A-FOAF-Notepad#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1728Indo-European Word Roots / Racines Indo-Européennesurn:md5:42a442419e792bfedb8706cdccc817602014-06-15T13:21:00+01:002016-01-14T10:32:05+00:00MatthieuLinguistiqueCollectionLanguagePhiloPublicationScience <p>More than 15 years ago, I came across a book called "Dictionary of Roots from Proto Indo-European (PIE) Languages". Back then I had been slightly into Greek roots, but not so much into languages as a whole. I much preferred spending time on exotic alphabets, which I believed where more harmonious and easier encompass. Languages, on the contrary, looked like immense and chaotic jungles, calling for a never ending journey... rather discouraging!</p>
<p>In 2006, I've met Esperanto, which became familiar to me within few days (as it would for anyone, that's the beauty of it!). Esperanto has totally changed my perception of grammar and lexicon, in a word, my perception of languages. It exemplified both a methodical construction and a harmonious simplicity. From then, languages have become a fascinating topic: Chinese, Malay, Persian, Arabic, Vietnamese, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Japanese, Spanish...</p>
<p>Last year I've suddenly rediscovered this dictionary and how it can wonderfully link words with unexpected connections. Here is a summary of the main PIE roots... I'm slowly preparing it and will update progressively. It's now filled until letter E!</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Indo-European%20Roots.pdf" hreflang="en" title="Indo-European Roots">Indo-European Roots</a></strong></p>
<p>Some remarkable examples of kinship in English:</p>
<ul>
<li>Art, harmony, arithmetic, article, arm</li>
<li>Fate, fable, infant, fame, symphony, profession</li>
<li>Physics, future, proof, be, build</li>
<li>Day, joy, divine, journal, Jupiter, Zeus</li>
<li>Educate, duct, duke, tie, team,</li>
<li>Police, dictate, index, digit, condition, avenge, attach, teach, take, toe</li>
<li>Fact, theme, thesis, difficult, factor, artificial, fashion, effect, profit, defect, facility, do, deed</li>
</ul>
<p>In the provided DOCX document, examples are taken from these languages: Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Spanish, English, German</p>
<p>This Wikipedia article provides a broader spectrum of languages, covering each slice of the big PIE...
<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary" hreflang="en" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_vocabulary</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2014/06/15/Indo-European-Word-Roots-/-Racines-Indo-Europ%C3%A9ennes#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1723Frise historique mondiale / World history timelineurn:md5:df6d69362cab88519ca7190fadd8f5bd2014-04-25T16:34:00+01:002016-02-03T04:08:42+00:00MatthieuIdéesCollectionCreationFutureHistorySynthesisVisualisation <p>Revoilà la sympathique frise, depuis 10 minutes <em>avant</em> le Big Bang jusqu’à Lundi dernier, toute une Histoire !</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/World%20History%20Timeline.pdf" hreflang="en" title="World History Timeline">World History Timeline</a></p>
<p>J'y ai particulièrement détaillé la période préhistorique, et aussi ajouté un résumé en une page... distiller toujours plus, jusqu’au squelette essentiel ! Puis remplumer petit à petit autour...</p>
<p>Pour les dates-clefs, je dirais :</p>
<ul>
<li>-500 : Philosophes et fondateurs religieux (Zarathustra, Bouddha, Lao Zi, Socrate)</li>
<li>-300 : Premiers Empires (Alexandre, Maurya en Inde, Qin en Chine)</li>
<li>+400 : 1re choc Mongol-Hun (chute de Rome, ruine des Gupta)</li>
<li>+1200: 2eme choc Mongol (Gengis khan, Tartars, Yuan en Chine, sultanat de Delhi)</li>
<li>+1500: Fin du Moyen-Age (chute de Constantinople, Amériques, expansion Ottomane, Babar en Inde)</li>
</ul>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2014/04/25/Frise-historique-mondiale-/-World-history-timeline#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1722Osmothèque: orgue à parfum miniatureurn:md5:b9a910f4a2e2f6ab1826f1c70292ad4f2013-03-19T15:50:00+00:002013-03-19T15:55:53+00:00MatthieuCollectionCreationLanguagePerfumePhilo <p>Voici un coffret que j'ai fait confectionner l'année dernière, dans l'idée de rassembler 100 échantillons de parfum dans une petite boîte.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/12-09-00%20Osmotheque.JPG" alt="" /></p>
<p>Etant donné que mes souvenirs se fixent particulièrment grâce aux odeurs, ce coffret joue un peu le rôle d'album photo, ou encore de compilation de musique. Il s'utilise comme un catalogue de voyage où l'on peut choisir la destination sous forme de lieu, d'instant, de couleur, d'humeur...</p>
<p>C'est aussi un peu comme un manuel de géographie grâce auquel je révise de temps en temps quelques senteurs exotiques, ou des groupes d'arômes difficiles à distinguer: <em>"Burundi, Rwanda, Ouganda, lequel est plus rond? Plus vif? Plus suave? C'est comment déjà un parfum Chypré? Et poudré? Fougère? Vert?"</em></p>
<p>Je suis sûr qu'en entraînant régulièrement ses sens à discerner et nommer les choses, on gagne en acuité et largeur de perception; une sorte de supplément d'éveil. Cet entraînement est similaire à l'apprentissage ou approfondissement d'une nouvelle langue, ou encore la découverte de nouveaux concepts, comme une visite sur Wikipédia peut en offrir !</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2013/03/19/Osmoth%C3%A8que%3A-orgue-%C3%A0-parfum-miniature#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1712Script arabe et extensionsurn:md5:dbab79aaf0444d27539a13e71832c3022012-02-18T02:05:00+00:002012-02-18T02:05:00+00:00MatthieuLinguistiqueCollectionLanguageVisualisation <p>J'ai reçu ce matin un mail de mon ami iranien Reza. Comme il y avait un peu de texte en persan, je me suis essayé à le déchiffrer. Cela m'a rappelé un table résumé que j'avais fait il y a quelques années, organisant phonétiquement les lettres du script arabe, ainsi que les lettres ajoutées dans les script farsi (Persan d'Iran, ou Urdu du Pakistan) et jawi (Bahasa de Malaysie).
<br />A toutes fins utiles, le voici !</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/08-09-25%20-%20Arabic%20script%20and%20extensions.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>En couleurs sont marqués les groupes se ressemblant visuelement.
<br />Les lettres latines en rose indiquent les caractères introduits par le script jawi: Ny, Ng, V.
<br />Les lettres latines en marron indiquent les caractères introduits par le script farsi: P, Z, J, Ch.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2012/02/18/167-script-arabe-et-extensions#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/167Frise historique mondiale mise à joururn:md5:25606c8addd22588141165e53c25a0432011-08-28T11:02:00+00:002016-02-03T04:10:20+00:00MatthieuCafé du commerceCollectionFutureHistorySynthesisVisualisation <p>Un an après la première édition, voici une version plus complète de cette firse historique mondiale.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/World%20History%20Timeline.pdf"><strong>World history timeline</strong></a></li>
</ul>
<p>J'y a ajouté une section préhistorique depuis le Big bang, et une ligne détallée pour le Vietnam.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2011/08/28/161-frise-historique-mondiale-mise-a-jour#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/161Formation aux parfumsurn:md5:c1638d24e26e7e42c358a7ee62c0220b2011-06-02T11:18:19+00:002011-06-02T11:18:19+00:00MatthieuCoups de coeurCollectionColoursPerfume <p>Cela faisait 4 ans que j'avais pris l'habitude de noter sur un carnet mes "Madeleines de Proust": gazon tondu (Polincove), hortensia mouillé ou piment vert sauce soja (St Pierre), citronnelle mordue (St Pierre), Laurier (St Pierre encore!), peau ensoleillée ou poutre en pin (Grèce), cosse de marron (ND Sannois), nourriture pour poisson (tortue de Floride), livret couleur imprimé neuf (Zelda Majora's Mask), Sel de table (Méditerranée), Romarin (Albigny), bâtiment de ciment frais (garage), lavande (Provence), menthol (ND Belgarde et alchimie), Tilleul (école primaire), encens (Égypte) ...</p>
<p>Depuis que j'ai récemment retrouvé et identifié un parfum d'autrefois, et ça m'a décidé à me lancer un peu plus dans cet univers ! J'ai pris contact avec une professionnelle du parfum sur Hanoi, et on s'est déjà fait quelques exercices de tests en aveugle. J'ai aussi acheté un coffret intitulé "l'encyclopédie du parfum", contenant un jeu de flacon pour apprendre les notes de bases dans la description des fragrances.</p>
<p>Leurs site propose toute une base de donnée des parfums existant depuis le XIXme siècle, avec leurs compositions, familles, facettes, ingrédients, etc... Enfin ! Des mots pour ces couleurs si difficiles à décrire !</p>
<p><a href="http://olfatheque.com/recherche-avancee.php"><img src="http://olfablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/olfat-300x225.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><ins>Billets connexes:</ins></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/index.php?2009/07/07/102-tisserand-de-parfums">Tisserand de parfums</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/index.php?2007/07/10/10-j-ai-teste-pour-vous-le-durian-king-of-fruits">Durian, king of fruits (ou pas)</a></li>
</ul>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2011/06/02/158-formation-aux-parfums#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/158Un planisphère et une frise historique...urn:md5:6ac5af1863e2034199bc074493c7b2062010-08-21T21:01:00+00:002016-02-03T04:11:52+00:00MatthieuAutreCollectionFutureHistoryVisualisation <p>Juliette m'a rapporté de France ma carte du monde Michelin sur laquelle j'avais déjà bien dessiné et annoté. Elle habille à merveille un grand mur de ma chambre et capte souvent mon attention pour de longue divagations très.. studieuses ! A cette carte familière j'ai eu l'idée d'ajouter une autre moins banale. C'est au musée de Téhéran que j'en avais vu pour la première fois: une frise historique intégrale, mettant en parallèle chaque continent et civilisation ! Plus loin que ça, j'avais dans l'idée de trouver un site internet où l'on pourrait naviguer dans une telle frise en agrandissant tantôt le temps ou l'espace, développant les empires en régions et les dynasties en règnes.</p>
<p>Pour l'instant je n'ai pas trouvé de tel site, mais voici tout de même celui-ci: <a href="http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html">http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html</a>
<br />On y trouve 6 planches de 5 siècles chacune, reliées à de nombreuses petites cartes historiques. Je me suis imprimé ça sur des pages A4 qui, une fois toutes reliées, mesurent plus de 2 mètres ! Je compte maintenant développer la période préhistorique et ajouter les cartes disponibles sur le site.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/World%20History%20Timeline.pdf">Voici la version</a> que j'ai imprimée. Elle sera mise à jour à mesure que je l'améliorerai.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2010/08/21/139-un-planisphere-et-une-frise-historique#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/139