Visual aid for use in solving complex problems

A method of creating a visual aid for identifying, analyzing, and solving a complex problem arising in a domain that involves at least six logically interrelated parameters, comprising the steps of:

• (a) selecting a first set of three of the parameters having a triadic relationship;
• (b) creating a fixed visual display of the first set of parameters wherein each one is positioned to represent a separate corner of a triangle;
• (c) selecting a second and different set of three of the interrelated parameters, which is at least in part a derivative of the first set;
• and
• (d) then adding the second set of three parameters to the same visual display such that each parameter of the second set occupies a position on a side of the same triangle opposite to one of the parameters of the first set to which it is closely related.

A method of identifying, analyzing, and solving a complex problem arising in a domain that involves a large number of practical or theoretical parameters, comprising the steps of placing on a triangular frame of visual reference the following parameters which are called the Five Degrees of Articulation, each of which fits within the framework of the previous three parameter set by:

• selecting a first set of three of the parameters and adding representations of them into that triangular frame of visual reference at the corners of the triangle;
• then selecting a second and different set of three of the parameters and adding representations of that second set of parameters into that same triangular frame of visual reference at the edges of that same triangle that have some relationship with the corners;
• and
• thereafter continuing the process in an iterative fashion with further and succeeding sets of three parameters, constituting the third, fourth, and fifth degrees of articulation which are defined as:
• placing third and fourth degrees of articulation on the three lines between corners and the edges of the triangles infrastructure that will form a pair of three lines or six labels to define activities that complement one another;
• and;
• to which the final set of three parameters are then placed on the triangle to define the fifth degree of articulation thus providing a system of correlative points formed by the three limit concepts that establish the mid points of the edges of the triangle, which become the illuminating factor in the solution to the problem.