Patent ID: 9679401
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06T

Claim:
1. A cell-based data placement system to visualize large amounts of multidimensional data on an output, comprising: (a) a distortion optimizer implemented at least in hardware including a processor, that varies distortion by granting more output space to areas with high data density and less output space to areas with low data density, wherein the varied distortion is controllable via a distortion slider to a setting between a no distortion setting and a maximum distortion setting, and (b) an overlap optimizer implemented at least in the hardware, that varies overlap of data objects based on a number of data objects already placed at a preferred cell position for the data object, wherein the varied overlap is controllable via an overlap slider to a setting between a no overlap setting and a full overlap setting, and wherein the output is determined by minimizing a weighted average of a displacement error determined by the distortion optimizer and an overlap error determined by the overlap optimizer.