Loom began as a class project. The first implementation of Loom focused on visualizing the mood or tone of messages. Current work includes creating a reconfigurable interface for the mapping of the usenet data onto the canvas. In the following case, the left axis represents a different user as they've participated in the newsgroup. The bottom axis represents time from left to right.
Lines connect messages that belong to the same thread.
The user can move through time by moving the viewing window left or right. The colors represent different subjects. Figure 1 Different representations are displayed at different resolutions of the information. For example, the user is first presented with an image representing the entire conversation for the designated start and end time. This is essentially an overview of the conversation.