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 Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) was the original inspiration for the hyperbolic browser.
The following figure shows an original hyperbolic tree with its origin in the center and 1004 nodes:
The origin does not have to be in the center of the fisheye. The focus can be changed by the user either by clicking on any visible point to bring it into focus at the center or by dragging any visble point interactively to any other position:
