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The
Structure of Xangles / Frangles: Structure Maps Oct 19, 2009 back to frangles back to xangles This is an early attempt
to walk you through some more basics of Frangles' (and some of Xangles) nonlinear structure. It uses Flutonia for an
example because Writer's Bricks
is
the only currently posted material arranged into Frangles' official
nonlinear structure, which will evolve as time goes on. See the
first structure
page for more, and check back soon as everything is always under construction (sucks to be a long-term xeer).
SAGA
MAPS
The chart shown here is an example of a "saga map" listing every page (indivisible frwoa fragment) of a 7-book saga of Frangles, akin to one Harry Potter length saga. Seven Frangles pages (also called "fages", which are more like scenes than standard reading pages, ranging in length from a paragraph to several pages of a standard reading novel) form one Frangles chapter. Seven chapters form a novella (or "nova") of 49 pages, seven novas form one Frangles book (of 343 pages), and seven books form one 7-book saga, consisting of 2,401 pages altogether, shown in the 7x7x7x7 map here (of which each digit will eventually be a link). Since nowhere near this much material has been written yet, there's no need for saga maps this big yet, but in time there will be enough Frangles pages where having a link to every page in supercondensed charts will be indispensable tools for reading/surfing Frangles reading material. Consider this entire chart to be an expansion of one of the circles of gray dots on the image on the main Frangles structure page. A single dot on that chart represents a single book (343 pages), so (eventually) clicking one dot might get you a map of the pages in that book (one row of this chart), or clicking a set of seven (the story of one character) might bring up a full map such as this. Clearly all sorts of interlinked, surfable maps like this on many levels would be useful, such as a map of the novellas of a single Age, or even plot summary and character maps, etc. Small portions of these could even be inserted to the side of the reading material, to make it easier to progress to any random page of a certain set while reading. Of course, if this map were of a standard 7-book saga (for instance, Skip's full saga), it would only allow quick access to that saga, and not the rest of the Frangles material. Reading the material of only a single chapter, book, saga, etc, is only the most basic plain vanilla set of Frangles pages. A map could also be customized so that the freer can choose some set of Frangles pages to form a particular saga they want to be able to surf, such as the first chapter of every book. [In that case, the saga map would include Frangles pages: 111-111, 111-112, 111-113, 111-114, 111-115, 111-116, 111-117, 112-111, 112-112, 112-113, 112-114, 112-115, 112-116, 112-117, 113-111, 113-112, etc. These types of page sets / reading orders will eventually have some type of shorthand notation such as ZZZ-11Z. There are of course billions of potential ways to read Frangles material, so these types of saga maps would have to be designed on the fly by the user's commands.] However, note that--while useful--customized sagas aren't exceptionally necessary for leaping from page to page. With just two or three clicks one could access any Frangles page very quickly, without a page being listed twice anywhere on Frangles.com. For instance, if the general current format of Writer's Bricks is applied throughout Frangles (including this chart as a 7-book map), one need simply click [Age > Character > Page] to get to any page. E.g. currently you can already click [Flutonia > Skip > Page] to get to a Writer's bricks page. (For instance, [Flutonia > Skip > 1133] brings you to page 3 of chapter 3 of novella 1, where 1133 is shorthand for "Book 1, Chapter 1.3, Page 3"). Note we're using the 4-digit number "1133" as shorthand for the standard Frangles page notation "131.133". This is like leaving off an area code for a telephone number if we're in the same area. The prefix we're leaving off here is "13", which is Skip's number out of the 49 characters (or 77 in base 7, labeled 11 through 77). The 4-digit number could also be written "1.133" or something of the sort to make it more clear we're simply leaving off the first two digits of the standard page format (xyz.xyz), but perhaps four digits is few enough where we wouldn't need to bother with a separation, as in a 4-digit calendar year a millennia (2010 A.D., etc), or leaving out the comma in a 4-digit number ($2500). In the very long run, the goal is to be able to organize Frangles material in exponentially more complex ways: for instance, a program could know enough to actually write the prose for a certain frangle given so much information, and use fractal structures to display ways to surf that material, but of course that's a far off issue. > Please check back soon
as this page is under construction <
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