Complex system modelling in Second Life

I have known Turner Boehm in RL for a long while, so I was more than happy to see he enter Second Life with eightbar. He was straight in modelling and scripting as I would have expected. We had the dematerializing tardis a little while back, but now he has got serious as I indicated he would, not that Dr Who does not count as serious!
Anyway, he has built an modeller in Second Life that, driven by external complex system information ,produces a self organizing atomic looking structure showing how (as in this case) multiple software systems could be interconnected.
In full mode the model is able to be manipulated in realtime. I had seen the original as was impressed but after this SL update I popped to North East Hursley island and had a chat with Turner whilst sitting on this fabulous dynamically built structure.
The elements and linkages have text associated with them to indicate the nodes and links in the model.
The whole thing is very scaleable, imagine a whole sim full of 15000 nodes and links.
For the techies and architects among you I think you will get where he is coming from.
Everyone else, it looks cool too I think.
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18 thoughts on “Complex system modelling in Second Life

  1. This is very interesting. Now we turn the typical Blink decision making into Think decision making!

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  5. I would like to understand more from Turner Boehm how I can use the 3D application for a strategic planning scenario. Currently we can map out in 2D the issues, stakeholders, and inter-relationships. 2D maps have been successfully created by an academic at Stanford.

    In 3D, with network analysis tools we could get strength of ties, distance etc.

    Can he or Ian respond to follow up on this application?

    Thanks,
    vaxelrod

  6. I’m working on a problem right now with the visualization of software systems in relation to the design rationale behind the decisions made in creating the software. Right now, my plans are to to do 2D network visualization, but now that I’ve seen this, I’d really like to explore 3D visualization. If you could send me some more information about this, that would be wonderful.

    I’m also a member of Second Life, so if can tell me how to view what you have created there, that would be great, too!

    Cheers,

    Bill Callahan

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  8. Thanks for all the comments and questions, the tool is being developed as part of a project looking at Brownfield re-engineering of businesses and IT systems (soon to be the subject of a book from IBM Press). The latest public model can be viewed on IBM 1 (follow the Turner Boehm link above). Due to IP reasons, I cannot release the tool outside of IBM at the moment (but that could change).

    Thanks for your interest, and expect more developments…

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  11. I’d love to find out more about the system he used with to generate the data and how he interfaced it with Second Life. Where can I get some more info?

  12. I would like to understand more from Turner Boehm how I can use the 3D application for a strategic planning scenario. Currently we can map out in 2D the issues, stakeholders, and inter-relationships. 2D maps have been successfully created by an academic at Stanford.

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