Click on the –:X- icon in the graphical display toolbar. This opens the Agent main word term Search set up panel. To briefly familiarize yourself with the different controls in this panel click on the -?- in the upper right hand corner of this control panel which will add a -?- to your cursor. Move the cursor over any control or entry line and click. A short description of the documentation for that control feature will appear.

We recommend that you go ahead and maximize the graphical display screen. This lets you more easily separate all the text flags that may present on different nodes. Text flags and different views can be selected by clicking on toolbar buttons labeled 1 through 8 on graphical display, which will show saved views for the agent. If you want to better understand what you are looking at, we advise you use the pull down menu on this display and select Caption. This will provide a brief mention of what each display view is showing.

Click on the –A- icon, which is used to format the HTML report, and set up captions for views.

At the bottom of the agent Format control panel you can enter a Title for the agent, and an overall category name for words you typed in each Metric line (A, B, and C).

Metric Sum text entry line is also available if there is another overall category that subsumes the 3 categories, or you can leave it blank.

When any Surf3D agent module is opened, there is a toolbar above the graphical display which opens different control panels and execute key runtime and file commands.

To best navigate a saved network display view, first select view 1 through 8 on the toolbar.

The graphical view shown in the window may have existing captions which can be turned on using the pull down menu and selecting Caption.

Each view can be navigated in a number of ways. The most simple is to use the mouse to point at any node in the chosen view. Each node, whether sphere, cube, or bar or pyramid can be highlighted by using point and click with the mouse.

Place the mouse cursor over the display view and click down the left mouse button. The display animation will temporarily freeze, and all the node colors will change.

While you drag the mouse while keeping it clicked down, different nodes and shapes will highlight.

As each node highlights, and you right-click the mouse on it, if there is a text flag associated, it will also display.

Once a node is highlighted you can release the mouse click-down and the node will remain highlighted and the display will return to normal animation and colors and text flags.

By pointing and clicking on the display window node (see preceding navigation explanation).

Another way to highlight a particular node is to open the Display control panel by clicking on the second control panel window behind called Cursor.

You can click and drag the slider on the Cursor Position left portion of the panel.

Dragging the slider down and up will sequentially highlight each node, up to a hundred nodes fro the left 1X slider.

Incrementing the 100X slider down a single increment will set the fine control 1X slider to the nest 100 hundred nodes.

The Cursor Position sliders can highlight any node up to the 5000^th node limit. As any node is highlighted the full length text flag will be shown and remain showing.

By pressing the Space Bar on your computer keyboard. This will launch the browser or open a new browser window to the page that corresponds to the highlighted node.

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar. Two windows will display, one for Display modification and one for Cursor control. The Display control panel window, has numerous features.

To familiarize yourself with the Display control panel features, click on the -?- in the upper right hand corner of the panel, and a -?- will be added to your mouse cursor. Move the mouse cursor over any Display panel control and click down and a short description of the functions of that feature will appear.

You can change any setting by clicking on different radio buttons or by moving sliders and see how it affects the display being viewed.

If you make a new display that you prefer you can click on the Save View button in the upper right hand corner of the panel and assign the view to one of the 8 view buttons on the graphical display window.

Be sure to remember which view number you are currently editing, since as soon as you click the Save-View button, the toolbar button previously highlighted will disappear. Only 8 views can be saved per agent.

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar. Take a few moments to familiarize with the different Display control panel features by clicking on the -?- in the upper right corner of the panel. This will activate a -?- icon next to the moving cursor. When you click on any feature radio button, checkbox, or slider a short description of its functions will appear in a pop-up text window. The Display control panel is divided into several sections. Please see additional FAQs relating to this below.

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar.

First, click on the checkbox for Tracking in the lower left quadrant of the panel.

Second, click on the second panel control window called Cursor, and advance the 100X slider to the bottom of the display.

These two actions will assure that when the agent module is gathering and running that the current page node being visited on the web will be always centered on the graphical display. As new nodes are added or evaluated, the display will re-center on the current node being evaluated.

If you want to know what the URL for that node is presently, click on the –X- icon on the main display toolbar to open the agent module Search set up and status panel. The third text line from the top shows the URL being currently evaluated.

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar.

Click on the Flight Sim checkbox. The moment you do that it may appear that the display view has disappeared, but in fact it may just be out of view.

Move the mouse cursor up and down or left to right to orient yourself. The Flight Simulation navigation mode opens at zero velocity (the computer keyboard –0- [zero] key), so you can pan up and down or left and right to get oriented.

To begin forward motion, you must select a velocity by using computer keyboard numbers 1 through 9 (fastest).

Start by pressing the number 5 key for example.

To commence motion in your preferred direction just point the mouse cursor and press down the right mouse button.

Pressing the right mouse button freezes your motion.

While the display is frozen, you can grad the cursor over any node to point and click highlight that cyberspace page node.

If you want to open the browser to that web page, press the computer keyboard Space Bar.

The Zero key stops any motion in its tracks.

Moving the mouse upwards makes you descend (relative to your current position), and moving the mouse downwards makes you ascend, just like an airplane steering control.

Moving the mouse to the right banks you to the right. Moving the mouse to the left banks you to the left.

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar.

Click on the Cloaking checkbox in the lower left hand corner of the display.

It generates a star field pattern, and if you press the keyboard letter ‘E’ (lower case) it will generate a different Lissajou pattern each time you press the letter E. This is used in Randomize Timer mode in the screensaver to generate occasional non-starfield animations.

When the agent is stopped the pattern color is red, and when it is running online the pattern color is green. (see: How do I use the Cloaking controls?)

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the toolbar.

Click on the SETTINGS button in the upper left hand quadrant of the Display control panel. This opens a sub-window for Color Assignment.

The default settings for color assignment are Domain types, including .com, .gov, .net, .edu, .org, and .mil.

If you want to customize the assignments for different purposes, just type into each line any portion of a URL you want to assign the standard six available colors to.

If you want to color assign nodes based on URL title text, click on the Title checkbox.

For example, someone may wish to discriminate between different portions of a single website.

The KEY section (upper left), for color keying, size keying and Metric keying. Includes

The ability to key the graphical display to Boolean evaluation status (True, False, Unknown), Domain color assignments, number of links associated with a web page, three separate Metric channels, and a Metric sum channel key. On the left side of the KEY section are the Color radio buttons, and on the right side are the Size buttons. Experiment with these radio buttons and watch how it changes the display.

The Randomize Timer in the screensaver will select different combinations at random. If you have captions entered into the Format window entry (-A- icon on the main display toolbar), and you have selected the caption to be on (pull down menu, select Caption), then as you change the radio button settings for the Metrics you will see which category you are highlighting for visual emphasis.

At the bottom of this section is an untitled slider which controls the KEY section Metric color shift and brightness factor, with brighter to the right.

The ZOOM section (upper right) includes both a standard Z-axis zoom control and selectors for the different basic display types and styles. The display types include:

SPHERE which provides a 3D radial fan;

FAN which provides a standard conical 3D fan display;

CUBE which distributes the web pages nodes based on domain and file path text to coordinate calculation;

ZONE which layers the web nodes according to the domain SETTINGS control set up in the KEY section;

SPIRAL. Spiral is a display type is activated by clicking on both the MET checkbox and the ZONE checkbox. The –A- slider controls the spiral diameter. The –B- slider controls the spiral curl rate, and the Metric Range slider (middle left just under the KEY section) controls the spiral height.

There are three radio buttons in the GRID (middle upper right) section. The graphical display can be set up to have no grid by selecting the OFF button, or have a 4x4x4 sectioned grid by selecting the –1- radio button, or just have a cubic boundary by selecting the –2- radio button.

The ROTATION section (middle right) includes an X, Y and Z animation rotation rate in the upper portion, and the X, Y and Z Position sliders in the lower portion set up absolute orientation point of view into the network.

You can null the rotation rates by clicking on the –0- button in this section.

Click on the -<<- button to reverse all the rotations.

Click on the -||- button halts the rotation as well (same as –0- button in this Beta software release).

The buttons labeled 1 through 8 in this section set the absolute positions of X, Y and Z to only several different preset variations in the Beta release. However you can adjust the absolute position to any point of view using the Position sliders.

The CONNECTOR section (upper right) includes controls for changing the node connectors.

The –B- button includes back connections to nodes that have already been visited but are also linked to new nodes (this can get the display node connections quite crowded so it is left off as default).

There are three types of connectors selected using the radio buttons: -Line- which provides single pixel width lines no matter what zoom factor, -2- which select connector flange in two axes, and –3- which selects connector flanging in 3 dimensions.

To see the best 3D flanges use –3- radio button in this section. The slider bar controls how fat the conical flange connectors are.

The three radio buttons for True, Visited and All select which node connectors will display. The True radio button shows only the True node connections which is the most pruning. The Visited shows both True and False evaluated node connectors, and All shows True, False and Unknown node connectors all together.

The NODE section (lower right) includes has controls for sizing nodes and text flags for the nodes.

The Title slider when set to the far left turns off all text flags (except for the navigation highlighted node). Moving the Title slider to the right increases how much text length is displayed as attached to any node.

The choice of which nodes to be visible is controlled by the True, Visited and All node radio buttons. The True radio button shows only the True nodes which is the most pruning. The Visited button shows both True and False evaluated nodes, and All shows True, False and Unknown nodes together.

The True node slider sizes the Boolean true nodes. The False node slider sizes the Boolean false nodes, and the Unknown node slider sizes the Boolean unevaluated nodes.

The Point radio button render the nodes with pixel points only. The Line radio button renders the nodes with outlines. The Fill radio button renders the nodes as solid.

The METRIC RANGE section (lower and middle left) includes a host of different controls for display set-ups. The Metric range slider controls the height of bars or pyramids when the Bar Graph box is checked.

Using the Bar Graph Controls: The Bar Graph checkbox, when selected, the layout of the 3D display type selected in the ZOOM section will be shadow cast to the 2D cubic space floor.

When selected as On, the Bar Graph retains the geometric placement of the display type as selected in the ZOOM section in its orientation, but converted from 3D into a 2D flat projection.

The Bar Graph, when selected, has its projections of spires, pyramids, blocks, or pins sized by using the Metric Range slider control – further right increases the 3D height of the bars.

The Bar Color checkbox inverts the bar color scheme.

The Bar width are modified using the NODE section sliders, which are double-dutied for Bar shaping.

When in Bar Graph mode, and when the Node POINT radio button is selected, the Node TRUE slider controls the Bar BASE width for all bars equally.

When the Node POINT radio button is selected, the Node FALSE slider controls the Bar TOP width for all bars equally.

When the LINE radio button is selected, the Node True slider controls the Bar BASE width for all bars with base widths determined by the metric channel value selected in the KEY section.

When the Node FILL radio button is selected, the Node True slider controls both the Bar BASE and TOP width for all bars equally (so only rectangular skyscrapers are produced), and with the relative width determined by the metric channel value selected in the KEY section.

The Node UNKNOWN slider controls the Bar outline accent fringe width for all bars equally. The Bar Color checkbox inverts the bar fringe and body colors.

This slider adjusts the size of the node Digit display. When the slider is set all the way to the left, the digit display is off. If the Flat checkbox is selected, then the digit display is flat and always is pointed towards the user point of view, regardless of rotations. When the Flat checkbox is not selected the digit display is provided as a four sided box with the same digit on all four sides of the box placed on node. This applies to Bar Graph mode or alternate ‘floating’ 3D display mode.

The View Angle slider produces a fish eye effect on the whole display. The farther to the right the slider is set, the more pronounced the fish eye hyperbolic effect. The normal view setting for standard 3D perspective is to set the slider exactly one quarter way to the right (the first notch mark).

When you accentuate the View Angle slider to about 3/4 to the right, the display view will recede considerably. To correct for this, use the Zoom control slider on the top right of the panel and zoom in. This way you can create a view where it appears your point of view is located right inside the model, not outside looking in.

The Vista slider controls the vertical height of the point of views, that is, the Y position of the user point of view relative to the 3D rendering space.

The tracking checkbox, when selected, centers the highlighted node to the center of the user point of view, i.e. the center of the screen.

To use the Tracking mode, you can point and click at any node and the screen will center on that node, as well as the rotation will center on the highlighted node. Tracking mode can be used during live agent runs online. (see "How can I navigate, track and stay locked on the current node being evaluated while the search is being run?")

The Fan Ring checkbox adds a fine spaced pixel width point ring around any conical fan while using the display type for FAN.

Creates a solid floor in middle gray color, which is sometimes useful with Bar Graph mode.

The cloaking controls allow the user to disguise the network display from prying eyes, if desired. Selecting the Cloaking checkbox shows a starfield pattern which can modified using various double-dutied controls.

The Node Unknown slider increases the number of stars (to the right is more stars).

The Node False slider increases the length of star streaks (to the right is longer streaks).

The Node True slider shifts the cloak color from reddish to white (to the left is more white).

It generates a star field pattern, and if you press the keyboard letter ‘E’ (lower case) it will generate a different Lissajou pattern each time you press the letter E. This is used in Randomize Timer mode in the screensaver to generate occasional non-starfield animations.

If you want your agent during screensaver mode to only show a single cloaked starfield view you must use the Display control panel and Save View to only View #1, and second, make sure the Randomize Timer slider in the screensaver Settings panel is set to the far left (off).