MoireTrees: visualization and interaction for multi-hierarchical data

  • Authors:
  • Mahnas Jean Mohammadi-Aragh;T. J. Jankun-Kelly

  • Affiliations:
  • GeoResources Institute, Engineering Research Center, Mississippi State University, MS;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, James Worth Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, MS

  • Venue:
  • EUROVIS'05 Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Eurographics / IEEE VGTC conference on Visualization
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Visualizing hierarchical data is one of the core areas of information visualization. Most of these techniques focus on single hierarchies—hierarchies with a single root element and a single path to each element. In contrast, this work focuses on the browsing of multi-hierarchies—hierarchies with multiple roots or multiple paths per element. A radial focus+context display algorithm and interaction methods are introduced to explore such multi-hierarchical data. A series of examples demonstrate the effectiveness of our new visualization.