5. A method of rendering dynamic vehicle telemetry data on a graphical display comprising the steps of: creating an editable dashboard of graphical objects configured to have substantially any arbitrary non-rectangular shape for displaying vehicle telemetry data, the dashboard including a first container object; adding graphical objects to the first container object; displaying vehicle telemetry data from a predetermined data source by: acquiring the telemetry data from the data source; applying a data value from the data source to at least one graphical object configured to represent that data value, wherein a telemetry datum being applied to the at least one graphical object causes a shape transformation of the at least one graphical object, the shape transformation of any parent object also causing a shape transformation of that parent object's child objects, grandchild objects, and other descendent objects; wherein applying a single vehicle telemetry datum may cause a plurality of differing shape transformations to a plurality of graphical objects including objects that do not have a parent, child, grandchild or other descendent relationship to other graphical objects that have undergone a shape transformation; wherein the shape transformation applied to any given graphical object is independent of the shape transformation applied to any other given graphical object, so that multiple graphical objects may be shape transformed in different ways in response to the same vehicle telemetry datum; wherein the at least one graphical object is overlappable with respect to other graphical objects from any layer and the at least one graphical object is overlappable with respect to other graphical objects that do not have a parent, child, grandchild, or other descendent relationship to the at least one graphical object; providing a first rendering of the first container object to display the data on the dashboard in conjunction with the at least one graphical object; and displaying at least a portion of the graphical rendering on the graphical display.
5. A method of rendering dynamic vehicle telemetry data on a graphical display comprising the steps of: creating an editable dashboard of graphical objects configured to have substantially any arbitrary non-rectangular shape for displaying vehicle telemetry data, the dashboard including a first container object; adding graphical objects to the first container object; displaying vehicle telemetry data from a predetermined data source by: acquiring the telemetry data from the data source; applying a data value from the data source to at least one graphical object configured to represent that data value, wherein a telemetry datum being applied to the at least one graphical object causes a shape transformation of the at least one graphical object, the shape transformation of any parent object also causing a shape transformation of that parent object's child objects, grandchild objects, and other descendent objects; wherein applying a single vehicle telemetry datum may cause a plurality of differing shape transformations to a plurality of graphical objects including objects that do not have a parent, child, grandchild or other descendent relationship to other graphical objects that have undergone a shape transformation; wherein the shape transformation applied to any given graphical object is independent of the shape transformation applied to any other given graphical object, so that multiple graphical objects may be shape transformed in different ways in response to the same vehicle telemetry datum; wherein the at least one graphical object is overlappable with respect to other graphical objects from any layer and the at least one graphical object is overlappable with respect to other graphical objects that do not have a parent, child, grandchild, or other descendent relationship to the at least one graphical object; providing a first rendering of the first container object to display the data on the dashboard in conjunction with the at least one graphical object; and displaying at least a portion of the graphical rendering on the graphical display. 13. The method of claim 5 further comprising the step of creating a predetermined number of additional container objects with graphical objects in the object tree as child objects, grandchild objects, or other descendant objects.