From: Lars Kr.L. <gr...@lk...> - 2004-08-05 14:48:40
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:08:55AM -0400, Runar Petursson wrote: > When writing my own analysis tools (pre Gramps), I created two types of > "relationship" calculators. The first did the same thing as Gramps > currently does--calculated blood relation. The second was much more > experimental, but tried to answer the question, how are these two > individuals "connected". I used the term connected as in basic graph > theory--this is after all, just a simple graph--and traversed the graph in > all directions away from the starting node (parents, children, spouses), > identifying all the path's to the second node. There are fairly efficient > algorithms out there for that. This resulted in some interesting, and fun, > facts. > > I think this type of tool in Gramps would be useful, but I don't think it > should be an "upgrade" to the relationship calculator--it's a completely > different animal. I think this view of related versus connected is very useful, especially after the questions Alex posed. A connnection calculator implemented as a separate plugin/function would be very interesting (for me). -Lars Lundin. -- GEDCOMP: An extensive and free database for genealogists with interest in Denmark: http://www.lklundin.dk/gedcomp/ |