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Re: Cause and Effect Diagramming in Mathematica

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• Subject: [mg85392] Re: Cause and Effect Diagramming in Mathematica
• From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 22:37:40 -0500 (EST)
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Yes it's perfectly realistic in Mathematica 6, though it would
certainly be a significant project to develop it correctly.

-David
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On Feb 7, 4:52 am, robert prince-wright <robertprincewri... at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I am wondering whether Mathematica 6 provides an environment for creating 
diagrams in which the arrows, nodes and boxes represent data, influences and
 functional transformations.
>
>   What I'm envisaging is a series of palettes that allow me to add elements to a diagram while at the same time writing the functional relationships
 to a notebook for later evaluation.
>
>   Does this sound realistic? Can some of you point me to the expressions
 I should look at to do the following:
>
>   - create a palette that adds a line and a box to a graphic
>   - select these two and move them
>   - write the associated functions to a notebook
>
>   Robert
>
> Robert Prince-Wright
> Houston
> TX, 77006
> USA