The most basic principle is that everything can be organized into digestible cellular models that represent the highest level variables that make up the system under consideration. The movie shows a primitive 5 cell model that could represent the 5 main constructs of the global economy. Within the 5 cells are subcells and subcells of subcells that identify the dimensions of the economic system. When you see pattern within the cells, the pattern defines the systemic meaning at that level and viewpoint. If the cells simply light up, it means they are in play. If the cells are filled with red/blue/neutral patterns, the patterns and color carry the meaning attached to state and function – disfunction or high function. The pattern’s characteristics identify the degree of flow, density, activity, directionality, perturbation etc You can read the cells like a 3 dimensional colored CAT scan. Our image moves in time and space and conveys the full dimensionality of meaning attached to the states and exchanges of each cell.
When you view the movie, you can follow the sequence of economic events, you can follow the highest level view of the cells affected negatively and all cells impacted by the initial causal event. When Visual Y is fully implemented, the user can zoom in to lower level views, set those views next to higher level views, drill down to very detailed ontologies that represent specific banking systems, or follow the human behavior progressions that are linked to the causal event. The shapes of the models and cells carry meaning as well – rounded cells convey life forms, rectangular forms represent human man made constructs. We are offering this to you not as an absolute answer but as an early stage invention that requires a great deal more collaborative thought and development, r&d and coding, creative design and cognitive semiotics.