[EM] Carey Diagrams

[Forest Simmons]

On Fri, 3 May 2002, Rob LeGrand wrote in part:

> Speaking of "the chaos of the cyclic patterns", I've written a program to draw
> Craig-Carey-style triangle graphs.  Each of the three corners corresponds to a
> certain ranked ballot; each point inside the triangle corresponds to an
> election with those ballots in the same proportions as the distances from the
> point to the corners.  Each point is colored according to the winner of its
> election given the election method.

I've never had the patience to try and decipher any of Craig Carey's
writings enough to figure out where he was coming from.  Thanks for giving
a simple explanation.

How does he handle six voting factions in three candidate elections? Does
he use five dimensional simplices?

Forest

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