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Navigating Clustered Graphs using Force-Directed Methods

PublisherBrown University
Format PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5Date added03 Jul 2000
Topics 3D Modeling and Rendering
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Graphs which arise in Information Visualization applications are typically very large: thousands, or perhaps millions of nodes. Current graph drawing methods successfully deal with (at best) a few hundred nodes. This paper describes a strategy for the visualization and navigation of graphs. The strategy has three elements: A layered architecture, called CGA, for handling clustered graphs: these are graphs with a hierarchical node clustering superimposed. An online force-directed graph drawing method. Animation methods etc.

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