Balloon focus: A seamless multi-focus+context method for treemaps

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1157-1164

  Tu, Ying ^a   Shen, Han Wei ^a  

^a Ohio Suite University ^*

Author keywords

Fisheye; Focus+context; Magnification; Multi focus; Multi scale viewing; Treemap; Visualizing query results

Indexed keywords

FISHEYE; FOCUS+CONTEXT; MAGNIFICATION; MULTI-FOCUS; MULTI-SCALE VIEWING; TREEMAP; VISUALIZING QUERY RESULTS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

BALLOONS;

EID: 54949112059     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2008.114     Document Type: Conference Paper

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