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QUOTE 45 from:
Bernstein, M. (1999) 'Patterns of Hypertext'
Proceedings of Hypertext ('98). Available from http://www.eastgate.com/patterns/Print.html; accessed 5/11/04

Finally, we may note that our current tools for visualizing hypertext are not particularly effective in representing the patterns described here. Many Web-mapping programs, for example, uncover spanning trees on the hypertext graph and so tend to hide Cycle patterns. Conventional node-link views like Storyspace [42] and MacWeb [62] represent isolated cycles fairly well but provide little support for visualizing contours created where many cycles intersect. The elision implicit in NoteCards tabletops [74] or the nested boxes of Storyspace [11] helps to keep displays simple but hides patterns that span multiple containers. Some patterns (Mirrorworld, Missing Link, Feint, Montage) are not easily represented by conventional tools and require new visualizations to help writers (and readers) perceive, manipulate, and understand the patterns of their hypertexts.

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