Adaptive view-dependent tree graph visualization

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive visualization technique for representing a large-scale hierarchical dataset within a limited display space. A hierarchical dataset has nodes and links that reveal the parent-child relationship between the nodes. These nodes and links are described using graphics primitives. When the number of these primitives is large, it is difficult to recognize the structure of the hierarchical data because several primitives overlap within a display space. In order To overcome this difficulty, we propose an adaptive visualization technique for hierarchical datasets. The proposed technique selects an appropriate graph style according to the nodal density in each area.