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A Survey on Graph Visualization

by Weiwei Cui, Huamin Qu
Clinical Infectious Diseases (2011)

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A Survey on Graph Visualization

A Survey on Graph Visualization
By
Weiwei Cui
Supervisor
Huamin Qu
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents ii
Abstract iv
1 Introduction 1
1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2 Graph Layout 6
2.1 Node-Link Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1.1 Tree Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.1.2 Tree+Link Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.3 Spring Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1.4 Node-Link Layout Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 Space Division Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Space Nested Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 3D Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.5 Matrix Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3 Graph Visualization Techniques 16
3.1 Visual Clutter Reduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.1.1 Edge Displacement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.1.2 Node Clustering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.1.3 Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.2 Interaction and Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.2.1 Zoom And Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.2.2 Filtering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.2.3 Focus+Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.2.4 Animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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