Abstract:
Traditional graph drawing is only concemed with viewing of
abstract data and relations amount data items. It uses a graph
model to present the data items and the relations and tries to
geometrically convert the abstract graph into a 20 plane for
visualization. There are many applications in this area, such as
family trees, software design diagrams and web site-maps.
The real world data that we want to visualize, however, IS more
complex than those that can be simply presented with traditional
techniques, because it contains many domain-specific attributes.
For example, in a web site-map (visualization) a simple
graphical node can be used to represent a web page. However,
this node is unable to represent some domain-specific attributes
associated with the web page, such as the access frequency and
the connectivity of the page in the web locality.
This paper introduces a new model for Attributed Information
Visualization that can be used to visualize the relational data
with many associated attributes. We split the visualization
model into two mappings between the abstract data and physical
pictures, Geometric Mapping and Graphical Mapping
