Cursor Highlight Controls

The Cursor Highlight controls let you selectively view different portions of the collected web network, and highlight individual web page nodes. From the perspective of any selected web node, you can use this control to see the parent nodes, sister nodes, or common children nodes. You can start with any selected node and identify nodes that were previously or subsequently discovered. Nodes with common or similar metric values can be highlighted, and nodes within defined XYZ distances can be highlighted. Once any node is selected, you can click on a button to open the web page in your browser which is represented by that node.

Each 3D web network 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.

How can I highlight any particular cyberspace node?

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 5000th node limit. As any node is highlighted the full length text flag will be shown and remain showing.

Once I have highlighted a cyberspace page node in the display, how do I open the browser to that web page?

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.

How can I navigate, track and stay locked on the current node being evaluated while the search is being run?

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.

How do I navigate the 3D view display using flight simulator mode?

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.

What are the Cull Nodes controls, and how do I use them?

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the main toolbar. Two control panel windows will open, one for general display control and another behind it for Cursor controls. On the right side of the Cursor control panel, is a section called Cull Nodes. Nodes can be removed from the graphic display using various radio button selections in this control in conjunction with the node culling slider on the bottom right of this window. Nodes to be ignored can be grayed-out by clicking on the Grey checkbox.

There are 11 radio button selections, each effect a different culling function.

Each of which is scaled by the use of the global use Min-Max slider control directly below the radio buttons.

These radio buttons each show nodes relative to a single highlighted node. (You can highlight nodes using the Cursor Position slider on the left side of the panel).

ALL: leaves all page nodes visible (default)

COMMON SOURCE: shows other sibling nodes linked to the same source parent node

DESCEND: shows first generation children nodes linked to the selected (parent) node

SUBSEQUENT: shows nodes visited by the agent subsequent to the selected node

PREVIOUS: shows nodes visited by the agent prior to the selected node

DESCENDENTS: shows all descendent progeny (or children nodes) of the selected node

DISTANCE: shows nodes included within a 3D cubic spatial vector distance from the selected node (comparing X, Y and Z to the node)

SIMILAR METRIC A: shows nodes with numerically near Metric A counts to the selected node’s Metric A value. The slider scales from 1 to 10 count nearness.

SIMILAR METRIC B:shows nodes with numerically near Metric B counts to the selected node’s Metric B value. The slider scales from 1 to 10 count nearness.

SIMILAR METRIC C:shows nodes with numerically near Metric C counts to the selected node’s Metric C value. The slider scales from 1 to 10 count nearness.

SIMILAR METRIC SUM: shows nodes with numerically near Metric Sum counts to the selected node’s Metric Sum value. The slider scales from 1 to 10 count nearness.

How do I Cull the Number of Titles to be displayed on the Cursor panel?

Open the Display control panel by clicking on the –three dot- icon on the main toolbar. Two control panel windows will open, one for general display control and another behind it for Cursor controls. In the middle vertical section of the Cursor panel is a vertical slider titled Cull Titles. When the slider is all the way to the bottom, all titles for all nodes will appear. As you move the slider upwards, titles with lowest number metric counts are excluded from appearance, and higher slider positions cull out higher and higher number metric count node titles. This is useful to cull out text flag titles for many nodes with lower metric counts and only emphasize text flag titles with higher metric counts. For example, while culling titles in Bar Graph mode, as you move the slider upwards, the titles on the lower bars begin to disappear from the bottom up.

When using the Cursor Position slider, how can I more easily open the browser to the highlighted web page node online (without using the keyboard)?

On the Cursor panel bottom left there is a button title ONLINE. Clicking this will open the browser to the web page that has been highlighted using the Cursor Position sliders.

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