John Lamping, Ramana Rao, and Peter Pirolli. IR is supported for visible nodes. Sample applications include browsers for files and organizational structures. Potential applications include software and document management, and WWW browsers. Mathematically, the technique lays out a hierarchy on a uniform hyperbolic plane, and then maps this plane onto a 2D circular display region.
Hyperbolic visualizations have two important properties .
Components diminish in size as they move outwards. Based on Hyperbolic Geometry for Visualizing Large Hierarchies . This particular representation was chosen because it has the ability to deal with kinds of graphs produced by our interaction histories. In particular, these graphs are both highly nonplanar and highly disconnected.