Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization

At the recent Eurovis conference, Danny Holten and Prof. van Wijk presented a paper entitled “Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization”.  They merged the concept of edge bundling with force-directed network graphs, also known as node-link graphs, to show graphs with significantly less clutter and highlight high-level edge patterns.  The picture above models the edges as flexible springs attracted to each other.

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Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization – information aesthetics.

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .