(After Inalcik, pp. 204-205)

Applets offer visual evidence of temporal pattern. When the line segments joining adjacent rectangles are scaled according to time, additional information is transformed into a spatial format. Another interesting view of the applet is as a dynamic object that represents the stability, or lack thereof, in a system. Scramble the applet; does it settle down to a steady state? The size of the bounding box helps to determine the steadiness of the system--there are many parallels to these ideas in human systems.