Fractal Approaches for Visualizing Huge Hierarchies

This paper describes fractal approaches to the problems which associate with visualizing huge hierarchies. The geometrical characteristic of a fractal, selfsimilarity, allows users to visually interact with a huge tree in the same manner at every level of the tree. The fractal dimension, a measure of complexity, makes it possible to control the total amount of displayed nodes. A prototype visualization system for UNIX directories is also shown.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1993
• Where: VL
• Authors: Hideki Koike, Hirotaka Yoshihara
• Keywords: Fractal Approaches, Huge Hierarchies, Huge Tree, Visual Languages, VL 1993