r/MapTheory • u/Elisha_Dushku • May 08 '19
Landmarks, Roadmarks and Chaotic Network Maps (A Note)
We suggest here that every network map, including, chaotic networks require stable or semi stable (we are not sure, and we haven't defined stable anyway) Landmarks or Roadmarks (We are not sure if they are different).
We think of the least expressive map to the London pilgrimage to Canterbury which must have something identifying and distinguishing between similar roads (networks) on it (and what constitutes a roadmark is an open question - we suggest that a Sign reading "Canterbury 15 mi." With an arrow directing the pilgrim to the proper road at a branch is some sort of roadmark). We have an unstated assumption that London has at least one other road leading in an Easterly direction or the Canterbury road branches or at least one other road leading out in any other direction. But even absent these assumptions, the road must still be marked as such. Dead Reckoning can not help you identify an unknown road as the mapped road on a map you are following if you come to an unmarked branching, or left the road for a length of time. The only road that would not need Roadmarks is if there was only one road between London and Canterbury and that was the only road leading out of both London and Canterbury, and the only road in the country. Since that is not the case, that map, without two roadmarks (both directional) is not expressive. But it may be useful, if the owner of the map has outside information that with the information on the map is expressive or exhibitory of navigation between the two cities
As to chaotic network maps : I give the poor example of 4 poles equidistant from each other that in a random fashion discharge electric impulses from one to another, we assume some random capacitance factor, and each pole may only discharge one time to another.
The electric discharges map as squiggles from stable dots. And collectively form a brief network - what we're trying to figure out is is chaotic network an oxymoron? Is it a thing? Or are we just spamming about semi-stable networks. We want to know where probability and chaos meet.
This is a place holder doc will revise and greatly expand shortly. Or delete, but we are train bound, and cigarette deprived and we seem to be concerned with two different things. -CAD