JavaScript Information Visualization Toolkit (JIT) at noumena

Description

A radial layout of a tree puts the root node on the center of the canvas, places its children on the first concentric ring away from the root node, its grandchildren on a second concentric ring, and so on…

Different techniques for radial layouts have been proposed. These techniques vary mainly on the angle span (or angular width) calculated to place a node’s children. Ka-Ping Yee, Danyel Fisher, Rachna Dhamija and Marti Hearst introduced a very interesting paper called “Animated Exploration of Dynamic Graphs with Radial Layout”. In this paper they describe a way to animate a radial layout of a tree with ease-in and ease-out transitions, which make transitions from a graph’s state to another easier to understand for the viewer.

I did a little example showing a network of pearl jam’s related artists. Artist relations are described on the left container. Click on an artist’s name to get some detailed information.

Original URL

http://blog.thejit.org/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/

http://blog.thejit.org/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit-jit/