On Wed May 12 06:05:58 CEST 2004 Jesse Gilman valdamarv at
bellsouth.net wrote:

>To my best knowledge, the hyperbolic viewer is the subject of a
>software patent.  I believe that it was developed at a university, on
>public tax money.  Then it was simply given to a private company, for
>their private profit.

I don't know about the legal status of this, but a similar tool is
being developed by CAIDA in Java, and they offer the source code to
CAIDA members.

http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/

This page also references works by Tamara Munzner that you should check out.


	
		
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