A software-based system of measurement that

• quantifies new qualities
• in science, finance and economics as ‘intellectual domains’
• and ‘application areas’ with ‘domain specific’ vocabularies.

This requires:

• the definition of domain-specific qualities as ‘measures’
• and the execution of software methods that quantify on 2D screens what measuring instruments quantify in 3D realities.

The ’3d metric’ system combines and integrates

• the science of cybernetics and systems analysis
• the knowhow of programming and software development
• and technologies of visualization such as microscopes and telescopes.