Fisheye Views
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Description
a fisheye view of a graph shows an area of interest quite large and with detail and shows
other areas successively smaller and in less detail. it achieves this smooth integration of
local detail and global context by repositioning and resizing the elements of the graph.
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cartesian vs. polar transformations
A cartesian transformation has the property that all the vertical and horizontal lines
remain vertical and horizontal after the transformation. [SARK94]
Advantages
user can control the distortion factors
Disadvantages
_lways keeps all the information on the screen, which gets cluttered.
- There is no satisfactory 2D layout of a large tree, because of exponential growth.
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Last updated 1 March 1997