Fully Automatic Visualisation of Overlapping Sets

Visualisation of taxonomies and sets has recently become an active area of research. Many application fields now require more than a strict classification of elements into a hierarchy tree. Euler diagrams, one of the most natural ways of depicting intersecting sets, may provide a solution to these p...

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Published in:Computer graphics forum Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 967 - 974
Main Authors: Simonetto, Paolo, Auber, David, Archambault, Daniel
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2009
Wiley
Subjects:
Computer graphics
Computer Science
Eulers equations
I.3.3 [Computer Graphics]: Picture/Image Generation-Display algorithms
Information Retrieval
Readability
Studies
Taxonomy
Visualization
ISSN:0167-7055, 1467-8659
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Summary:Visualisation of taxonomies and sets has recently become an active area of research. Many application fields now require more than a strict classification of elements into a hierarchy tree. Euler diagrams, one of the most natural ways of depicting intersecting sets, may provide a solution to these problems. In this paper, we present an approach for the automatic generation of Euler‐like diagrams. This algorithm differs from previous approaches in that it has no undrawable instances of input, allowing it to be used in systems where the output is always required. We also improve the readability of Euler diagrams through the use of Bézier curves and transparent coloured textures. Our approach has been implemented using the Tulip platform. Both the source and executable program used to generate the results are freely available.
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ISSN:0167-7055
1467-8659
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01452.x