Beamtrees: Compact Visualization of Large Hierarchies

Information Visualization

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-39

  Van Ham, Frank ^a   Van Wijk, Jarke J ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information visualization; tree visualization; treemaps

Indexed keywords

EID: 84998075671     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500036     Document Type: Article

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