Ajaxian posted this hyperbolic tree browser. I like the smooth motion and curves – I haven’t really seen javascript do this before. Hyperbolic trees/graphs are useful because you can explore relationships close-up and keep some context about the relation to the rest of the graph.
Nicolas uses the hyperbolic thing for a music recommendation thing:
When I looked around in 2005, I could only find java and flash libraries for graph browsers. I thought briefly about how to build a totally customizable one – using really basic and editable code like this Flash graph browser. But the libraries for drawing lines and moving stuff in Javascript didn’t look very good.
November 6, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I have seen something similar, but a bit more applied. It is a hyperbolic tree for representing the evolutionary history of organisms (a dendrogram or phylogenetic tree). I used it to map all the types of viruses of bacteria found in the ocean. Check it out: http://kinase.com/tools/HyperTree.html
If you want, I can share my map with your website readership.