Examples

Collecting Examples

Some examples were used repeatedly. Maybe they should be fleshed out a bit.

Color (RGB color)

While color is a complex issue, a common data structure of simple color-enable systems is the "RGB color" triple. This is interesting as it is about the simplest structured value widely used.

• structure three values together and call it "color"
• know which one of the three is red, green, blue

Lighting

(IKEA vs. Philips Hue)

Garbage collection

e.g., time of pickup -- not a property of the thing, but contextual