Tech Report CS-93-40
Graphical Fisheye Views
Manojit Sarkar and Marc H. Brown
September 1993
Abstract:
A fisheye camera lens is a very wide angle lens that magnifies nearby objects while shrinking distant objects. It is a valuable tool for seeing both "local detail" and "global context" simultaneously. This paper describes a system for viewing and browsing graphs using a software analog of a fisheye lens. We first show how to implement such a view using solely geometric transformations. We then describe a more general transformation that allows global information about the graph to affect the view. Our general transformation is a fundamental extension to previous research in fisheye views.
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