[mov]

IRIS Explorer seems really interesting! I agree with you about that "loose of control feeling". I think it is a common effect that happens every time we go to a higher level or alternative paradigm. We have to create ways to easy go trough those levels and back again.

With Flowhub you can always go inside the 'black boxes' creating your own components as reported in the "Component Editor" section of http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/flowhub-beta. It is also possible to create and remix subgraphs that is another way to abstract a complex group of components.

[Theodores]

I believe the British 'NAG Group' bought IRIS Explorer and that it is still being used in academia. You should approach them, explain what you are doing and try to get a demo.

Reason being that wheels get reinvented, and, in IRIS Explorer, there were lots of ideas that were far ahead of its time. Some of those ideas have been lost and some bright spark just needs to pick them up again...