Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Treebolic

Treebolic is a suite of programs (an engine, a generator, a browser, and example Web services) whose purpose is to give a hyperbolic rendering of a hierarchy of data. A tree is rendered with nodes and edges but display space is subject to a particular curvature: more space is allocated to the focus node while the parent and children, still in the immediate visual context, appear slightly smaller. The grandparents and grandchildren are still visible but smaller still. Distant nodes gradually disappear towards the disk's border, as though the whole hierarchy were seen through a fish eye lens.

[Environment] Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
[Intended Audience] Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License] OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Operating System] OS Independent
[Programming Language] Java
[Topic] Multimedia :: Graphics, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Presentation, Multimedia :: Graphics :: Viewers

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