This stack was produced as a companion to the BasinLab software being developed by Prof. Scott Burns and the staff of his Algorithmic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. The BasinsLab software is a program that facilitates the visualization of data by generating raster images. This stack contains my entire graduate thesis, including several color pictures produced with software similar to BasinsLab. The purpose of this stack is not to explain how to use the BasinsLab software, but instead to give a detailed example of one type of investigation that can be performed using the software.
• PICTs, both color and black and white figures, are displayed in two different ways.
Pictures are displayed over the card by using the ColorizeHC XCMD created by BungDabba
Productions. Clicking on one of the bold figure titles will display the appropriate image
over the card. There is also a menu listing all of the figures referred to in the body of my
thesis. Selection of a figure from the menu displays the figure in an external window
using the picture XCMD.
• There is a glossary included as part of this stack. Click on a word you want more
information on, then click on the glossary button (second from the left). If the word is in
the glossary you will be taken to the appropriate card else a dialog will tell you the word
was not found.
• Because of the XCMD and the custom menu, HyperCard 2.0v2 is required to run this stack.
The stack will work on black and white machines, but the color pictures will be of little
value.
• To display the color pictures in their original 8-bit depth, Hypercard must have at least
1300k of memory. This can be changed in the Get Info box in the Finder. With 1300k
available 2 external picture windows may be open at the same time. More windows may be
kept open at the same time if HyperCard is allocated more memory.
As this is my first stack, I am anxious to get some feedback on it. Please feel free to send comments or suggestions about the contents or presentation of the material in this stack.