This Anthropic billing cycle has almost gone to waste. I have not touched AI for personal projects in a while. But in the most ADHD fashion, I shall start a new project instead of continuing the sorely needed slop clean-up that’s still pending. I do not have the entire evening for this, it is my intention to sleep for the first time at the [[tiny home]] today and take two suitcases in the process, so I shall start with the most elementary artifact that shall last for one week. The process shall be described in prompts.

What dimensions exist? What is a dimension?

How do we measure things? what are we measuring when we measure?

I think the concept I’m seeking is a vector. Briefly define it in algebra and geometry.

I remember jaques bertin classified ways of representing numbers? you could use shape, color, size and many other visual representations, can you list them?

How many variables could Bertin fit into a single shape that is understandable?

Did Bertin ever explore visualizing cycles?

The Bertin matrix Oh nice!

So, using standard computing devices, how many axis are easily available to the user? It could be x y with the finger and z with a scroll gesture. Can I fit another axis for human input somehow?

But I would like it to work on both mobile and desktop without too much hassle. Compare how many axis Bertin has to how many human inputs I can handle on both devices. Forget about VR.

It’s ok to use bulletpoints, you’re being too verbose. Yeah, I agree, human cognition can only capture three axis at a time. Let’s start by trying to capture activity in the gym. So you have reps, weight and a subjective score for “effort”. Now, let’s build an artifact where I can capture values using my fingers. Scale them to real-like values.

Good but a couple of problems: the layout is jumping because the RPE Max effort label is going to two lines. I see you made the radius scale. Let’s not do that, use a constant handle size and change hue when scrolling. This is Just the input, at the top of this we will add a “Bertin visualizer” translating the inputs into a visualization made with d3.

Claude artifact

Ok, here is where we got today. It’s terrible but I can easily input gym data with one finger and optionally capture a third axis through a second relatively easy gesture (though scroll is working like shit on my MBA). Enough play, let’s get to work.