pattern-interface

Pattern Interface is translating parts of Christopher Alexander's Timeless Way of Building (1977) to a Web Interface.

Ferdinand List - ferdinand.list at gmail dot com

Roadmap

HUD

• add nodes
  • if nodes are selected, add edges to selected nodes
• remove selected nodes and corresponding edges
• edit nodes
  • disable edit if more/less than 1 node is selected
• connect nodes
  • disable connect id more/less than 2 nodes are selected
• zoom, zoomlevel

Frontend

• add a way to display pattern contents
• make edit node window dragable and improve UI
• use pattern diagrams as node icons
• introduce project based pattern sequences
  • highlight sequence nodes and edges
  • create entry point functionality

Backend

• use a database to generate and handle nodes / edges (OrientDB)
  • initialize nodes and edges from the database
  • operate all edge/node updates on the database
• add users
• add user projects / user languages
  • add functionality to create and select projects
  • add functionality to edit and delete projects
  • link projects to visJS and the database

Content

• add global language patterns
• add global language patterns' diagrams
• set global language clusters

AI

• compare user languages to global language
  • evaluate quantity of user defined connections in comparison to the global language