Squarified Treemaps

Publication Type  Conference Paper
Author  Bruls M, Huizing K, van Wijk JJ
Year of Publication  2000
Conference Name  Data Visualization 2000, Proceedings of the joint Eurographics and IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization (VisSym)
Pages  33-42
Publisher  Springer
Abstract  

An extension to the treemap method for the visualization of hierarchical information, such as directory structures and organization structures, is presented. The standard treemap method often gives thin, elongated rectangles. As a
result, rectangles are difficult to compare and to select. A new method is presented
to generate lay-outs in which the rectangles approximate squares. To strenghten
the visualization of the structure, shaded frames are used around groups of related
nodes.

URL  http://www.win.tue.nl/~vanwijk/stm.pdf