It is based on Charles Sanders Peirce's "trichotomic", which he described in 1888 as "the art of making three-fold divisions".
[1] A major part of trikonic analysis is the three Peircean categories; these consist of firstness, secondness and thirdness: Another way of describing the basic understanding of these notions is from Sowa: Trikonically represented, the categories are (Figure 2.0): There are many ways in which these notions can be interpreted.
Within trikonic are six directions, which are all permutations of logical paths of relations keeping the notion of 1ns, 2ns and 3ns throughout the object under consideration.
[weasel words] One of the purposes of trikonic is to explore whether it can help to identify what elements of a website actually influence the user to perceive it to be credible or not.
Trikonic analysis is a very sophisticated method,[weasel words] and as shown in the examples above it can be used in many different ways and scenarios.
Again, using the notions of 1ns, 2ns and 3ns it may be possible to see how certain elements of the CG tools relate to each other in this way and produce a good solution from this.