i202 Fall 2010 School of Information, UC Berkeley

For a better look, visit: http://www.myconfinedspace.com/2009/05/11/hierarchy-of-beards/beardarchy...

This brought me back to the long lost days of A5!  The creators start out with a broad set of vocabulary terms describing old-timey beards, and narrow down the characteristics as they move down the tree.  Their terms are obviously meant to be comical (if you couldn't tell by 'douche' or 'chilly chin'), but they do a pretty good job of describing each instance.  They've also constructed the hierarchy fairly accurately, according to the way we've defined the system in 202.  The 'parent' beards that appear higher up on the tree encompass all of their 'children' that map to them lower down.  In other words, all of the beards that follow 'Chin-Muffler' have at least some scruff that shows up below the jawline.