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Hi Sven,

It is interesting that you say that. This has reminded me with a lecture
given by Professor Philip Steadman back in 2007 where he explains the
reasons behind the failure of the panopticon model.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journals/journal_of_bentham_studies/journal_bentham_studies_09/Steadman_2007

All the best,

Kinda

> Dear All,
>
> i just wondered about the controllability-values in the analysis of a
> panopticon. In the depthmap-tutorial it says:
>
> "Controllability (…) for a location it is simply the ratio of the total
> number of nodes up to radius 2 to the connectivity (i.e., the total number
> of nodes at radius 1). (...) Applied to the panopticon example, it would
> seem to operate in a similar manner to control. Each of the cells is
> highly controllable, as the area of visual field is small compared to the
> area viewable from the centre to which it connects, while the centre is
> less controllable, as it links only to the cells within its field, and
> they add little extra visual field.”
>
> But when i ran the analysis in Depthmap the opposite is the case: the
> cells have low values (less controllable) and the center has high values
> (highly controllable).
>
> Does someone know more about this?
>
> Best,
> Sven
>