20100906 Coslor, Justin M -- PICVis Interchangeable Diagram Formats

I was thinking a little while ago about a journal entry from 8/27/2010 
that PICVis could use to incorporate different kinds of diagrams 
interchangeably to offer different valid perspectives on the 
information. Text is like painting a picture in a particular order, 
though diagrams result in the same information but represent it 
differently and in a different order. For instance in PICVis, there 
could be a computer program that can convert documents and other 
knowledge into various representation systems and back, such as 
collapsable outlines, bubble charts, wiki lexicons, visual 
encyclopedias, powerpoint presentations, collections of math equations, 
guided tour videos, etc. Maybe a block of text could be pasted into a 
webpage form and then the person could select the kind of visual output 
that they want, and then when they click submit it would take them to 
that diagram, and they could select another view style and it would 
translate that into another graphical format.