Archive for July 31st, 2020

Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 196)

Friday, July 31st, 2020

It is possible to foliate traces into separate traces having the same structure and scale (we also show corresponding Trace Fabric for the original trace):

In the diagram above Trace Foliation was done for message type, for example, error and normal messages. The reverse operation of Trace Mask would produce the same original trace.

Correspondingly Trace Fabric can be foliated too giving rise to “orchestra” representation and vice versa via Trace Mask:

Bars can be added with the help of Silent Messages.

The name of this analysis pattern was also inspired by foliations in mathematics.

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Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 195)

Friday, July 31st, 2020

Semantic Field is a set of messages that belong to particular category or subject:

It is different from Trace Field which is a function, not an already prepared codomain of mapping.

Some Semantic Fields may be formed by the analysis of Implementation Discourse, for example using machine learning techniques.

The pattern name was inspired by semantic field in linguistics and came to our attention when reading “German Loanwords in English: An Historical Dictionary” book.

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Trace Analysis Patterns (Part 194)

Friday, July 31st, 2020

If we take Combed Trace for Thread of Activity or some Adjoint Thread of Activity and strip other message content like we did for Trace Contour log analysis pattern we get individual braids that form Trace Fabric:

We can also get a stave representation of individual braids after a counter clockwise 90 degree rotation:

Bars can be added with the help of Silent Messages. Conversely, a musical piece can be transformed into some trace.

We mentioned “fabric” metaphor already when we introduced multibraiding.

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