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Acceleration, Contour, Fabric, Field, Foliation

Acceleration, Contour, Fabric, Field, Foliation

This lesson introduces the following analysis patterns: trace acceleration, trace contour, trace fabric, trace field, and trace foliation.

Trace acceleration

Sometimes we have a sequence of activity regions with increasing values of statement current as depicted in the following figure:

The boundaries of regions may be blurry and arbitrarily drawn. Nevertheless, statement current is visibly increasing or decreasing, giving this pattern the name trace acceleration from analogy with physical acceleration, a second-order derivative. We can also metaphorically use here the notion of a partial derivative for trace Statement ...