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An object‐oriented design for graph visualization
Author(s) -
Marshall M. S.,
Herman I.,
Melançon G.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.385
Subject(s) - visualization , computer science , graph drawing , graph , graph layout , core (optical fiber) , scene graph , theoretical computer science , computer graphics (images) , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , rendering (computer graphics)
Many applications, from everyday file system browsers to visual programming tools, require the display of network and graph structures. The Graph Visualization Framework (GVF) is an architecture that supports the tasks common to most graph browsers and editors. This article gives a brief overview of the design of the GVF and focuses on the core classes that are used to represent and manipulate graphs. The design of the core classes is justified by the requirements for navigation and visualization.