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From: George.Bray@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (George Bray)
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Subject: Re: Thing Icon
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Date: 26 Jun 91 15:42:25 GMT
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john@thelonius.mitre.org (John D. Burger) writes:

> 
> A system that I work on uses a KL-ONE-style knowledge representation.
> At the top of the hierarchy is the node ROOT, which is meant to
> subsume everything, and I mean everything, in the universe of
> discourse.  ROOT directly subsumes the following nodes:
> 
>   SITUATION, e.g. states and events

To represent states I would use other widgets like, on/off buttons
and panel lights. Animated  icons for events? This doesn't sound applicable
to what I'm imagining is a network/heirarchy modelling tool (?)

The others are difficult!

George Bray