This method of analysis requires attentive visual processing skills and is susceptible to information overload. Since they do not require the focused attention of one's visual field, they can be searched in parallel and perceived effortlessly by observers. The primary Finance display contains a grid of up to 225 cells and 3000 data items. Each cell within this grid represents the intersection of a country and an industry sector. Shape of 3-D icon indicates market capitalization of the underlying company.
Corporate logos rise and fall with their stock value.
Special opportunities and risks are highlighted by dynamic spinning and blinking cues. Software agents help hunt out interesting companies based on various criteria. The relative position of polygons within the terrain change in real time response to the activity of online market feeds. Maxus's products are highly parallelized to exploit the required performance scale of automated knowledge discovery, and are designed to integrate easily into a range of legacy and open system data warehouse environments. The information is provided by a configuration mechanism that allows the user to submit an ActiveX Active Data template file containing the collection of classes, methods, and elements of interest.