Hyperbolic trees
Authors
Short Description
...The essence of this scheme is to lay out the hierarchy in a uniform way on a hyperbolic plane and map this plane onto a circular display region. This supports a smooth blending between focus and context, as well as continuous redirection of the focus...
[John Lamping et al., 1995]
Suitable Datatypes
This visualization method can be used on hierarchies. With its characteristics the method is especially suitable for the visualization and manipulation of large hierachical data.
Figures
The [Circle Limit IV 1960 woodcut in black and ocre], printed from 2 blocks by Escher was the original inspiration for the hyperbolic browser.
