Visualization of large hierarchical data by circle packing

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 517-520

  Wang, Weixin ^a   Wang, Hui ^a   Dai, Guozhong ^a,b   Wang, Hongan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing   (China)

Author keywords

Circle packing; File system; Nested circles; Tree visualization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; DISPLAY DEVICES; FILE ORGANIZATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS); TWO DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

CIRCLE PACKING; FILE SYSTEMS; NESTED CIRCLES; TREE VISUALIZATION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 33745817859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1124772.1124851     Document Type: Conference Paper

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