Mind maps in 3D
Pick a group of books and the map stacks them as layers. Years run along each layer, places stand in rows, and events hang across the top. Drag the chart to turn it, then choose a section to see what it joins.
Drag to turn the chart, or Shift and drag to move it. Press + or − to zoom, or hold Ctrl and use the wheel. With the chart focused, the arrow keys step through the sections in time order.
This is the app's own data: the sections, places, events, themes and people of each group, read from its mind map files, on Ussher's years.
Reading the 3D chart
Every layer is the same chart, so a period or a place can be followed from one book to the next. With more than seven books the layers sit closer together.
Each dot is one section of a book's outline, coloured by its book and sitting on that book's layer. A bigger dot is a section with more verses. Along the layer it stands at its year, and across it in the row of the place where it was spoken.
Diamonds down the left edge name the rows: Jerusalem and Judah, Babylon and Chaldea, Egypt and so on. A row gathers every place the books name in that region, and the diamond grows with the number of sections that name it.
Stars across the top stand at the year of an event, on Ussher's chronology: the fall of Samaria, the burning of the Temple, Cyrus sending the captives home. Events still to come stand at the far right, and the last days at the very end.
These stay out of the way until you hover or choose a section. Then the themes and the people joined to it appear, along with its place and its events.
Choose a section and curved lines run to what it joins. A dashed line runs from a section to the time of what it foretells. Everything not joined to your choice fades back.
Light vertical lines mark the years along each layer, with the dates written at the front. Where a group covers centuries, the axis is stretched across the years where most of its sections fall.
Moving it
Choose a mark and it opens on the right in four tabs: Text for its summary and verses, Theme for the themes it shares with other books, Date for when, and Place for where it was spoken. Every verse reference in the app is a button that shows the verses and opens them in the reader or adds them to your study.
Flat views
What belongs together is drawn together. Sections that share places, events, themes and people drift into clusters, and you can drag any mark to rearrange them. Try it in the map above.
Years run across and places run down. Each section stands where it takes place, with each book offset a little within its row, and the events along the top. It is the 3D chart seen straight on.
The same chart with each book on its own layer. Drag to turn it.
One book
The map of one book puts the book at the centre, its parts in a ring round it and its sections in an outer ring. This is Genesis, in the ten parts and 24 sections of G. Campbell Morgan's outline, with the nine themes the app traces through it.
Choose a theme to trace it through Genesis.
Maps together
The map of any single book in a group has a button that opens its group with that section chosen, such as The five books together or The four Gospels together. Every group has the three layouts, its own years and its own Back and Forward.
| Group | Layers | Sections | Places | Events | Themes | Years |
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Where the maps come from
The maps of the historical books, the prophets and the whole New Testament follow G. Campbell Morgan's The Analyzed Bible (1907–1910, public domain). His divisions are lettered A, B and C, his parts are written A·I, A·II and so on, and his sections are numbered. The themes were added as a study aid, and every note quotes Morgan's own words about its section.
Years are those of Archbishop Ussher's chronology, the same as beside the verses everywhere in the app. A section Ussher dates shows his year. One he does not date takes the date in force before it, and says "about".
Open it
Questions
No. Each map is its own small file, and only the map you open is read, so the app's own file stays small.
On the published page, no. If you host your own copy, the maps live in a folder named kjv_mindmaps that sits beside the main file, in the same way as the commentaries. Upload that folder with the app.
Yes. Add a mind map from a file… takes a mind map page of the same kind, as an .html file. The app reads its data without running it, and keeps it in your browser.
The map on this page does. Drag turns the 3D chart, and the controls wrap to fit.