Fractal Approaches for Visualizing Huge Hierarchies (1993)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages |
| Citations: | 21 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Koike93fractalapproaches,
author = {Hideki Koike and Hirotaka Yoshihara},
title = {Fractal Approaches for Visualizing Huge Hierarchies},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages},
year = {1993},
pages = {55--60},
publisher = {Society Press}
}
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Abstract
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. 1 Introduction Visualization systems for hierarchical structures, especially for huge 1 data structures, have a potential usefulness. For example, the visualization of whole UNIX directories might help system administrators to maintain the file systems. Since administrators could recognize, through the visualization, local file systems of each computer and remote file systems mounted by using NFS (Network File System), they might avoid mistakes, such as deleting or moving files which are being referenced by other computers. It is, however, m...
