The Research Group is Moving!

During winter term 2021/22, we move to University of Bamberg. From Oct. 15, 2021, Fabian Beck holds a full professor position on Information Visualization.

New webpage of the research group: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/vis

Publications

Publications of the research group since 2016. For earlier publications, please visit Fabian Beck's Google Scholar or DBLP profile.

Overlap-free Drawing of Generalized Pythagoras Trees for Hierarchy Visualization

Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Overlap-free Drawing of Generalized Pythagoras Trees for Hierarchy Visualization

Author(s):
Munz, Tanja; Burch, Michael; van Benthem, Toon; Poels, Yoeri; Beck, Fabian; Weiskopf, Daniel
Title of Anthology:
2019 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), Short Papers
pages:
251-255
Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Date:
2019
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
doi:10.1109/VISUAL.2019.8933606
Fulltext:
Overlap-free Drawing of Generalized Pythagoras Trees for Hierarchy Visualization (1.92 MB)
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Abstract

Generalized Pythagoras trees were developed for visualizing hierarchical data, producing organic, fractal-like representations. However, the drawback of the original layout algorithm is visual overlap of tree branches. To avoid such overlap, we introduce an adapted drawing algorithm using ellipses instead of circles to recursively place tree nodes representing the subhierarchies. Our technique is demonstrated by resolving overlap in diverse real-world and generated datasets, while comparing the results to the original approach.