A Cluttering-Avoided Visualization Technique of 3D Visualization

Abstract

We propose a 3D visualization technique which realizes browsing of hierarchical or metadata-based link structures intelligibly while avoiding 3D cluttering. This paper describes the algorithm which relocates the metaphor of contents mapped onto a 3D space so that cluttering is avoided on a 2D projection space by applying the least squares method. Also, we evaluate the effect of avoidance of cluttering using proposed technique.