Quantifying the space-efficiency of 2D graphical representations of trees

Information Visualization

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 115-140

  McGuffin, Michael J ^a   Robert, Jean Marc ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Efficiency metrics; Graph drawing; Tree visualization

Indexed keywords

2D GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION; DESIGN GUIDELINES; GRAPH DRAWING; SPACE EFFICIENCIES; TREE REPRESENTATION; TREE STRUCTURES; TREE VISUALIZATION;

DRAWING (GRAPHICS); VISUALIZATION;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 77952646592     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/ivs.2009.4     Document Type: Article

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