Tree-maps: A space-filling approach to the visualization of hierarchical information structures

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Visualization 1991, VIS 1991

Volumn , Issue , 1991, Pages 284-291

  Johnson, Brian ^a   Shneiderman, Ben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; SEMANTICS;

HIERARCHICAL INFORMATION; LARGE HIERARCHIES; RECTANGULAR REGIONS; SEMANTIC INFORMATION; SPACE FILLING; STRUCTURED INFORMATION; TREE-MAPS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85032279305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/visual.1991.175815     Document Type: Conference Paper

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