Notes de Voyage - Tag - Visualisation2024-02-21T15:00:48+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/1819Polyglot Adventuresurn:md5:10417f984281461eb3d4f601ed388f172016-10-02T13:56:00+01:002016-10-13T03:04:53+01:00MatthieuCreationLanguageVisualisation <p>This week I've got some ideas about playing cards to stimulate multi-lingual workshops! The principle is basically to tell stories using several languages..</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Polyglot-Adventures_Logo.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>It is played with "Story cards" showing pictograms suggesting several ideas and words, "Language cards" indicating the tongues to be used, other "Mode cards" indicating tense (past present future) or focus (work jargon, emotions, slang, formal, etc.), and "Action cards" consumed to switch languages and modes.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Polyglot-Adventures_Sample.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Several playing styles came to my mind as i was crafting the first items:</p>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>Circle of Interpreters</strong></em>: players form a circle, languages are chosen as link between each player of the loop. Each has 3 story cards in hand. One by one, they lay a story card, and tell the scenario to the player on their left according to the required idiom. The next one adds another story card to the sequence and translates the whole narrative again to his neighbor. This game is rather collaborative, but we may give penalties to incorrect interpreters! This playing style only requires each player to speak 2 languages.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>Free for All</strong></em>: players sit around 3 central decks of cards showing Languages (those that all players can speak), Modes, and Story. Each player has 5 story cards and 3 action cards. A first speaker is selected randomly, and starts telling a (logical!) scenario by laying down his story cards on the story deck. At least one sentence must be made for each card. At any point of time, another player can raise one of his story cards, and will take over the speaker at the end of his sentence. Logical junctions and grammatical correction are necessary, but complains from other players must be made in the same language! If the contribution of the contender is proven incorrect, he takes back his card. Any player can use action cards to switch tongues and modes, even in the middle of a sentence! The winner is the one using up all his story cards.</li>
</ul>
<p>Practically speaking, printed paper was fixed on beautiful poker cards with tape. Kings Queens Jacks are kept to serve as "Action cards". Jacks and Queens switch to the next language of the pile, while Kings allow to select any tongue directly.</p>
<p>Here are all the <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Polyglot-Adventures_Cards.pdf">graphics</a> !</p>
<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/matthieu.napishtim/posts/10154180777729682">Facebook post</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/10/02/Polyglot-Adventures#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1776How many languages do you speak?urn:md5:001f803d565795e8b14e18af0f661f572016-10-01T12:12:00+01:002017-04-12T12:51:06+01:00MatthieuLanguageMeVisualisation <p>Here is an embarrassing and wonderful question! Language is about sharing, listening and talking, and that implies inviting the others to speak one of these languages, but crossing the thin line between sharing and showing off is quick…</p>
<p>A fair answer should quantitative, giving the gradual levels of mastery. For me it would be between 3 and 8. Mwaaahaha!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Language_skill_summary.png" alt="" /></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2017/01/30/How-many-languages-do-you-speak#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1781A 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/1772Credo in pictureurn:md5:f020bf84402f85edf955daebc02c8ea32016-05-16T10:40:00+01:002016-05-16T10:40:00+01:00MatthieuCreationDrawingSpiritualityVisualisation <p>A picture can translate a music, a poem... and why not a creed?
<br />Here is what the Christian credo could look like:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/15-03-11_Credo.docx"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/15-03-11_Credo_small.jpg" alt="" /></a>
<br />(Click to open the file with explanation labels)</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/05/16/Credo-in-picture#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1768Sociology: a Timeline of Generationsurn:md5:bfaeb35585d0570a032e4119d3464b5c2016-03-31T09:57:00+01:002016-10-20T16:50:29+01:00MatthieuCreationHistoryPoliticsSocietySynthesisVisualisation <p>I've been hearing a lot about "Y Generation" and "Z Gen" lately. When I looked into the topic, it reminded me of an old idea : showing both time and age on a diagram, in order to quickly visualize the age of a person (or generation) at each point of time. The aim was to clarify statements like <em>"I was too young for that back then!"</em>.</p>
<p>Historical events are shown in vertical, spanning through the age of affected populations. Events shaping a generation are typically occurring in their 20 years old.</p>
<p>I'm now complementing (crowding?) the diagram with the generations' labels, and few more events. In the XLS sheet I'm compiling researches depicting a profile of each generation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Generation_Timeline.xls"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Generation_timeline.png" alt="" /></a>
<br />(clicking on the image leads to the XLS file)</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/31/Sociology%3A-a-Generations-Timeline#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1763Exergy and Emergence, the two universal forcesurn:md5:364c27fa95c4a672eabf63ab142d952e2016-03-14T04:57:00+00:002018-11-15T14:04:06+00:00MatthieuCreationDrawingEmergenceHistoryPhiloScienceSpiritualitySynthesisVisualisation <p><strong><ins>Exergy</ins></strong></p>
<p>19th century's physics explained that all closed systems must evolve into states of higher <strong>disorder</strong>. This disorder can also be also seen as a <strong>dilution</strong> of matter and energy: electric charges migrate toward lower potential, radioactive atoms disintegrate into more stable isotopes, high pressure expand into broader space, motion causes friction and converts kinetic energy into thermal energy, heat dilutes into matter of lower temperature... Physics quantifies this amount of disorder-dilution by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy" hreflang="en"><strong>entropy</strong></a> (from Greek τροπή, change) In any closed system, entropy has to increase. This 2nd law of thermodynamics dictates the <strong>time direction</strong> in which systems will evolve. This arrow of time cannot be reversed, unless no dilution occurred, or if more entropy is produced elsewhere.</p>
<p>Another way to look at entropy is to measure <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exergy" hreflang="en"><strong>exergy</strong></a>. It is the opposite idea of entropy, short from of "extractable energy". When entropy is created, exergy is destroyed. Energy cannot be destroyed, it is conserved and converted into diverse forms. (In the case of nuclear reactions, following e=mc2, one considers energy and matter altogether as conserved.) Exergy is the extractable, or "useful", fraction of energy in a system, which can be extracted to produce work and <strong>drive motion</strong>. Electrical and mechanical energies are virtually 100% exergy, but heat, pressure, and chemical potential depend on how they differ from the surrounding. 1m3 of air at 1bar is useless on the Earth, because it is surrounded by the same pressure, but in outer-space is could produce work by dissipating into vacuum. After all exergy is taken from a system (battery, air tank, fuel, etc.), this system is at equilibrium with the environment and cannot dilute further. This can be compared to a <strong>spring</strong> of energy and matter which expands and dilutes.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/16-07-27_Exergy_Spring.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>It is to be noted that exergy can be destroyed without any "practical" use (e.g. an electric heater in the ocean..). The definition of exergy pertains to physics and is not anthropocentric, but rather independent from human cultural judgement. (I've discussed it in this <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2008/10/02/54-gaspillage-et-mere-nature" hreflang="fr">2008 article (in French)</a> )</p>
<p><ins>First conclusion</ins>: mass and energy dilution, causing exergy consumption, drives the motion of the universe. It fuels all physical reactions which build this movement into... more complex structures.</p>
<p><br />
<br /><strong><ins>Emergence</ins></strong></p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence" hreflang="en"><strong>Emergence</strong></a> is the name given to the phenomenon whereby the complex interactions of many simple elements generate <strong>new overall behaviours and entities</strong>. For example: life emerges from chemical systems. Life involves behaviours such as metabolism, reproduction, adaptation, which are all new compared to the underlying chemical systems, and could not have been predicted by the study of the chemical level.
I've discussed this in a 2012 note, linking <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2012/07/21/172-paradigme-de-l-emergence">scientific fields in Russian doll emergence.</a> I proposed the historical generation: Physical => Chemical => Biological => Psychological => Social. We see a rise of abstraction, and gradual irrelevance of "hard sciences" to study higher levels, replaced by humanities.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/16-07-27_Emergence_Pyramid.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>We can distinguish that the 2 necessary ingredients of emergence are the multiplicity of the entities (quantitative), and their specialization (qualitative). Hence emergence moves on through <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/13/Emergence-zig-zag" hreflang="en">Zig-zag evolution</a>, gaining <strong>complexity</strong> through both moves.</p>
<p>Emergence produces entities which <strong>survive</strong> when the underlying components disappear. For example, in a population of bacteria, if one individual mutates with a new better suited DNA trait, it will be inherited by its offspring and gradually become a trait of the whole population. It will survive in the population even after the death of the first new DNA bearer. An invention or an artistic style can still exists after the death of the civilization that made it.</p>
<p>A time goes by, more complex systems arise, which <strong>unify</strong> smaller components into a whole. Across history, civilizations consist of several societies, made of individuals. A person unifies organs, which unify countless cells, in turn unifying countless molecules, made of atoms.</p>
<p><ins>Second conclusion</ins>: emergence federates the motion of small items into larger, fewer, harmonious, and novel entities. Like a pyramid building bottom-up, higher abstract levels gradually come into existence.</p>
<p><br />
<br /><strong><ins>What our History-Universe might look like, from A to Z.</ins></strong></p>
<p>Both principles coexist:
<br />...the destructive dispersing impulse of exergy,
<br />...and the creative unifying rise of emergence.</p>
<p>Following the intuition of the Jesuit palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, we could call Alpha the space-time origin of exergy (probably the so-called Big Bang) and Omega the final unified emerging state of the universe. (I do mean "state" and not "point". This ultimate unification will occur at a given future time, but would probably encompass the whole universe itself.) This model does not imply that a god kicked the alpha and attracts us to the omega... but why not? At the bottom line of a complete picture of the universe, science and spirituality must be in agreement.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/16-03-13_Exergie-Emergence.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p><ins>PS</ins>: <strong>Gravity</strong> seems to be a bump on the road to entropy... since it tends to aggregate things together, and to sediment solids from liquids, seemingly creating order. In case the universe lacks of momentum, gravity would make it end up in a Big Crunch, all would go back to the Alpha square one! Hopefully we got enough exergy and time to reach Omega, and a godly handshake.</p>
<p><ins>Addenda 2016-07-25</ins>: After reading (at last!) Hawking "Brief History of Time", i understand that <strong>gravity</strong> represents negative exergy, so that the total exergy of the universe is always zero. During the spacial dilution of energy and matter, doubled by space-time expansion, a large share of the original exergy is transferred into gravitational potential exergy. I find dubious that that entropy would be already maximal when the universe will start to contract back again. I'm pretty sure we'll still have few more billion years to surf on the exergy waves and build further the pyramid!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/16-07-27_Space-Time_Ring.png" alt="" /></p>
<p><br />Once again i found that illustrating entropy merely as "disorder" is misleading and limited. A blank hard-drive has more thermodynamic order than the one containing Beethoven's symphonies. One shouldn't confuse the levels of the <strong>emergence pyramid</strong>. Biological or aesthetic order are far beyond thermodynamics. In that sense, the so-called Theory of Everything would be humbly relevant only to the bottom of the pyramid.</p>
<p><ins>PPS</ins>: Vincent Mignerot <a href="http://www.theorie-de-tout.fr/2015/03/28/maximum-entropy-production-thermodynamique/#.VRb2Atyh1Jf" hreflang="fr">summarizes (in French) </a> ideas from François Roddier and Eric Chaisson, and pessimistically proposes that emergence is only a mean to creates structures able to destroy exergy even faster. Hmmm.. maybe yes. Then it's a race: I use you to grow up, you use me to blow up.</p>
<p>L'article a été mis sur Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/matthieu.napishtim/posts/10153668400014682" hreflang="en">ici.</a></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/14/Exergy-and-Emergence%2C-the-two-universal-driving-forces#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1759Emergence zig-zagurn:md5:70b8d2a34b2c3ed981b4f60cf8e3ea512016-03-13T12:47:00+00:002016-07-28T04:45:30+01:00MatthieuCreationEmergenceHistoryScienceSynthesisVisualisation <p>This diagram I made in 2011 explores the relationships between 2 aspects of emergence: the multiplicity of entities, and their specialization.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/11-07-23_Emergence_Zig-zag.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>This <a href="http://www.theorie-de-tout.fr/2016/02/01/ecological-singularity/" hreflang="en">2016 article from a French researcher Vincent MIGNEROT</a> (English text) reminds about the "Technological singularity", a point of no return where we'll have brought computers up to a level where they'll independently continue their emergence and overtake us. (see I Robot, Matrix, etc.) This point however might be less threatening than the "Ecological singularity", a turning point of self-amplifying damages to the environment, which will herald human decline.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/03/13/Emergence-zig-zag#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1760Pour Quelques Couleurs de Plusurn:md5:a979d575f73fbc237a8b250602c8c8192016-02-19T05:03:00+00:002022-02-07T10:46:42+00:00MatthieuColoursVisualisation <p>On connaît les couleurs primaires, secondaires, mais à quoi pourraient ressembler des couleurs... tertiaires ?</p>
<p>J'ai cherche une réponse à partir de mes correspondances <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2009/03/29/95-attention-synesthesie-my-synesthetic-summary" hreflang="fr" title="vers l'article">synesthétiques</a> (à tes souhaits), qui m'ont fait sélectionner 10 couleurs pour les 10 chiffres. Voici les couleurs disposées par affinités, basée sur la roue chromatique :</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Synesthesie_Wheel.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Au delà des couleurs primaires (Rouge Bleu Vert) et secondaires (Cyan Magenta Jaune), cette roue conduit à envisager une troisième groupe de couleurs tertiaire (Teal Violet Orange), "teal" étant un ton vert canard.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Synesthesie_3_groups.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Bon, les peintres avaient déjà une réponse, mais ils se basent sur un autre trio initial (Rouge Jaune Bleu), d’où résultent un trio secondaire (Vert Orange Violet). Les couleurs tertiaires sont alors au nombre de 6.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Illustrations/16-02-19_Colour_Cycle.gif" alt="" /></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2016/02/19/Pour-Quelques-Couleurs-de-Plus#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1755Composer 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/1747Laramin now goes fully ideographic !urn:md5:80f463e84d6a39f6ea377378612e4e692015-06-19T06:02:00+01:002016-06-05T17:08:10+01:00MatthieuLinguistiqueCreationLanguageLaraminScriptVisualisation <p>Since 2012, a new script has been developed for Laramin, my first constructed language. More than ever it fits the project since it's purely ideographic.</p>
<p>Laramin has always put the emphasis on "meaning in itself" as far as such thing is possible. That is, all derivations, declensions, and conjugations are done using radicals with independent meaning. The targeted reading experience is to have a very analytical language structure (all words and grammatical aspect can be broken down to few fundamental ideas) only using direct visual symbols. (not like: "A" is a deformed ox head loosely pronounced "a", which in some contexts is an indefinite article..)</p>
<p>Larasem (for LARAmin SEMantic script) is made of simple visual components shared by all human civilizations: hand, foot, eye, tree, branch, cup, etc. Most Larasem combine several components to form an ideogram. This method can be compared to the Chinese 会意字 which also puts together ideographic components. More explanations can be found in the <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Laramin.pdf" hreflang="en">introduction PDF.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Laramin.pdf" hreflang="en"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Larasem_Named.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Here is a sample with the original text, translation with Latin script, phonetic script, and finally the ideographic script :</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Langues/Laramin_Sample.png" alt="" /></p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/06/19/Laramin-now-goes-fully-ideographic-%21#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1740Carte des Idéaux - A Map of Idealsurn:md5:d0662153f909dd755904675643fe5f262015-06-13T04:23:00+01:002017-02-20T16:33:58+00:00MatthieuCafé du commerceCreationGuyFawkesHistoryLaraminPhiloPoliticsPsychologySocietySynthesisVisualisation <p>A la suite de la tuerie de Charlie Hebdo, les réactions ont été vives de tous bords. Après une réflexion sur les divers idéaux invoqués, j'ai imaginé une carte pour les représenter, par affinités (vert) et conflits (rouge). Les outils neutres sont en gris.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Ideals.pptx" hreflang="fr" title="PowerPoint file"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Map_Ideals.png" alt="" /></a></p>
<p>Par "ordre naturel", j'entends l'équilibre selon lequel la nature s'agence en l'absence d'intervention humaine. Cet idéal se focalise sur la nature intrinsèque des choses et leur rôle (Dharma au sens large).</p>
<p>Les dilemmes enfin visualisés !</p>
<ol>
<li>Dilemme de la <strong>Naissance</strong> : Nature <> Égalité (Les hommes ne naissent pas égaux en facultés ni chances)</li>
<li>Dilemme de la <strong>Prospérité</strong> : Mérite <> Égalité (L'accumulation systématique des richesses fausse l’égalité des chances, et peut se compenser par la redistribution, elle même posant un problème de mérite.)</li>
<li>Dilemme du <strong>Don</strong> : Indépendance <> Partage (La main qui donne domine celle qui reçoit, le don implique une part d'humiliation, justifiant un désir d’indépendance)</li>
<li>Dilemme des <strong>Nations</strong> : Liberté <> Unité (La constitution d'un groupe sacrifie la liberté de ses membres, et endommage sa diversité interne en magnifiant les traits communs, et isole le groupe de l’extérieur en renforçant sa singularité.)</li>
<li>Dilemme de <strong>Rousseau</strong> : Liberté <> Engagement (S'engager, c'est manifester sa liberté tout en la détruisant... pour ensuite la régénérer en de nouveaux choix.)</li>
<li>Dilemme de l’<strong>Identité</strong> : Tradition <> Changement (L’identité des choses résident aussi dans leur dynamique d’évolution.)</li>
<li>Dilemme du <strong>Progrès</strong> : Satisfaction <> Critique (Être facilement satisfait est source de bonheur, mais coupe la dynamique de progrès par critique. Dans <em>Fahrenheit 451</em> et <em>Brave New World</em>, on évite toute vexation en excluant le débat critique au profit du divertissement.)</li>
<li>Dilemme de la <strong>Censure</strong> : Vérité <> Charité (Certaines révélations au mauvais moment peuvent rendre inutilement malheureux ou violent.)</li>
<li>Dilemme de la <strong>Sagesse</strong> : Justice <> Pardon (Pardonner peut apparaître comme un déni de justice.)</li>
</ol>
<p><strong><ins>Et au fait, où est Charlie ?</ins></strong>
<br /> Peut être entre les dilemmes des nations, du progrès, et de la censure: on préfère garder sa liberté de critiquer et de tuer* plutôt que de supporter les inconforts pour une cohabitation pacifique.</p>
<p>- "liberté de tuer", c'est à dire de faire justice soi-même: un droit qu'on aurait jugé naturel et fondamental à une époque préhistorique et proto-historique pas si lointaine que ça !</p>
<p>Cette liste de dilemmes peut rappeler la <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2010/11/07/145-profils-d-ideologies-douteuses">liste d’idéologies douteuses</a> faite en 2010.</p>
<p><ins><strong>Une mission pour la langue Laramin</strong></ins>
<br />Ma langue construite <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?tag/Laramin">Laramin</a> cherche à construire son vocabulaire de sorte à résoudre ces dilemmes, en proposant un nouveau point de vu avec de nouvelles notions, de sorte que les subtiles équilibres philosophiques ci-dessus deviennent des évidences pour le locuteur. La langue est notre lunette sur le monde et nos réflexions. Je pense qu'on peut éviter le problème à la source.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2015/06/13/Carte-des-Id%C3%A9aux-A-Map-of-Ideals#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1739Idea: 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/1728Poème coloré "Gulvedhran"urn:md5:1abd1d0f5ecec3c6bf5bc0a2fe0d6cd62014-09-01T17:49:00+01:002014-09-01T17:49:00+01:00MatthieuCoups de coeurColoursCreationPoetryVisualisation<p>Voici un poème avec des mots sans significations connues... mais juste choisis pour leurs musique !</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Poeme/14-08-22%20Gulvedhran.png" alt="" /></p> <p>Nayon dalbirezi ol fantyo tesni kah,
<br />Belvamice gwenoz pradhan di semyanah.
<br />Perviga mirezin doy grali tenice,
<br />Monn hubsen silderi jagernya volcine.
<br />
<br />Serkuni kwedinis va flace o medhyu,
<br />Pel greshnah obvedi rebix egaytenu.
<br />Manag-stolyanibhat ! A sforan yokighel?
<br />Ya finel, ya nelzir, oben vo zerjidel.
<br />
<br />Hogarnya melvines aquepti kah renni,
<br />Derbinesta silu reptegi kaytenni.
<br />Aban, ti zeftigwe valto l'pathunegan...
<br />
<br />Retyon jentodelli managuh trovino,
<br />Shulkenna mirto va wendoghe ol seno.
<br />Ti bolzenet aghi monn tori Gulvedhran.</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2014/09/01/Po%C3%A8me-color%C3%A9-Gulvedhran#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1727Frise 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/1722Poème coloré "Cloud Atlas"urn:md5:1983667e9feff54ed871976305dd80022013-04-15T17:30:00+01:002013-05-04T16:53:30+01:00MatthieuCoups de coeurColoursCreationHistoryMoviesPoetrySynthesisVisualisation<p>Sur l'inspiration de ce film bouleversant :</p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Poeme/13-04-15%20Cloud%20Atlas.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Poeme/13-04-15%20Cloud%20Atlas%20(affiche).PNG" alt="" /></p> <p>Destins entrelacés dans un même combat
<br />Résonnant au delà des âges et contrées,</p>
<p>Chaque vie aidera, du futur et passé,
<br />Ses sœurs engagées pour ouvrir la voie.</p>
<p>Aucune n'est triviale ou sans rôle vital
<br />Au relai du courage:</p>
<p>Elles forment un tout et traceront pour nous
<br />La carte des nuages.</p>
<p><br />Le discours de Sonmi 451:</p>
<blockquote><p>And so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of others.
XXX of our immortal life is in the consequences of our words and deeds that go on XXX throughout all time.
Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we (give) birth (to) our future.</p></blockquote>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2013/04/15/Po%C3%A8me-color%C3%A9-Cloud-Atlas#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/1716Poème coloré "Constellation"urn:md5:d2b9cccb5da17f6a78b930cf3c41673a2013-03-12T15:53:00+00:002015-03-18T05:10:39+00:00MatthieuCoups de coeurColoursCreationDreamsLanguagePoetryVisualisation <p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Poeme/13-02-17%20Constellation.PNG" alt="" /></p>
<p>Un poème sur un thème linguistique inspiré par le <a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?tag/Laramin" title="ma langue construite Laramin">Laramin</a>: une voûte comparable à celle du Panthéon sur laquelle sont disposés les 100 symboles idéographiques, espace de la pensée, sanctuaire de l'esprit. Le locuteur se tient au centre de la salle pour parler à ce ciel, dont les étoiles scintillent au rythme de la composition du discours. Par la suite, la voûte s'est assimilé au firmament de la création, retenant les eaux d'en haut, au dessus duquel j'avais imaginé un palais, accessible par un tunnel vertical formant un orifice dans le centre du dôme céleste.</p>
<p>Je compte aussi le mettre en musique, et y ajouter un dessin pour former un autre triptyque !</p>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2013/03/12/Po%C3%A8me-color%C3%A9-Constellation#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/179Verdi - Dies Irae (triptyque)urn:md5:8a8a6bc9ee1fbbf21e1b852b1832a93f2013-01-19T10:18:00+00:002013-04-15T17:15:12+00:00MatthieuMusiqueColoursCreationDrawingMusicPoetrySynthesisVisualisation<p>L'idée de triptyque me trotte depuis longtemps, il s'agit de combiner une musique, une image et un texte.
<br />Ici la musique est déjà prête, tirée du Requiem de Verdi :</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/TVjDP0vlem4">http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/TVjDP0vlem4</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/10-05-17%20-%20Verdi%20-%20Requiem%20Dies%20Irae.jpg"><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Image/Creations/Illustrations/10-05-17%20-%20Verdi%20-%20Requiem%20Dies%20Irae%20(vignette).jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
<p><img src="http://www.notesdevoyage.com/ftp/Texte/Poeme/13-01-19%20Dies%20Irae.PNG" alt="" /></p> <blockquote><p><br />Quatre foudres de fer
<br />Fendent les cieux en feu
<br />Répandant sur la terre
<br />Les flots tumultueux.
<br />
<br />Les vagues se rassemblent
<br />En mur de jugement
<br />Dont la crête ressemble
<br />Au glas du châtiment.
<br />
<br />Ce jour de colère
<br />Voit sortir de terre
<br />L'assemblée des lueurs.
<br />
<br />L'aube de ce jour-là
<br />Voit l'Homme sous l'éclat
<br />De l'œil Créateur.</p></blockquote>http://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?post/2013/01/19/173-verdi-dies-irae-triptyque#comment-formhttp://www.notesdevoyage.com/journal/index.php?feed/atom/comments/173