The way I have graphically represented chunks in FLIPP Explainers, I
now think, has been inaccurate, misleading.
The usual meaning of solid-line and other-form frames in flow charts
and Venn diagrams, for example, has been merely to identify the extent of a chunk's content -- like a
city's border limits. The connecting of such frames to form structures
has been assigned to separate connectors of various types -- usually
solid lines and arrows. I have represented FLIPP chunk borders in this
same visual way.: solid-line rectangles. They look like regular flow
chart- and Venn chunk borders, i.e., solid.
I now think it might be clearer when we/ I introduce FLIPP to draw the
"border lines" around illustrative (single, unstructured) FLIPP chunks
using dotted (tentative) lines. They represent not only the extent
borders. They are also the connectors that make visual
process-and-structure-creating 'logical' and easy even in the face of
abundant complexity. Until a FLIPP chunk appears in its connected
domain, we don't know its properties. We learn. Even 50 years late.
The acronym is for: Format for Logical Information Planning and
Presentation.
Dave Cox June 11, 2008
