Interactive Information Visualization of a Million Items

Existing information visualization techniques are usually limited to the display of a few thousand items. This article describes new interactive techniques capable of handling a million items (effectively visible and manageable on screen). We evaluate the use of hardware-based techniques available with newer graphics cards, as well as new animation techniques and non-standard graphical features such as stereovision and overlap count. These techniques have been applied to two popular information visualizations: treemaps and scatter plot diagrams; but are generic enough to be applied to other 2D representations as well.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: INFOVIS
• Authors: Jean-Daniel Fekete, Catherine Plaisant
• Keywords: Hardware-based Techniques, Information Visualization Techniques, INFOVIS 2002, Non-standard Graphical Features, Visualization