a novel method for visualizing compound graphs, which typically show hierarchical relations between items. hierarchical edge bundling is based on the principle of visually bundling adjacency edges together analogous to the way electrical wires & network cables are merged into bundles along their joint paths & fanned out again at the end, in order to make an otherwise tangled web of wires & cables more manageable. it reduces visual clutter & can be used in conjunction with existing tree visualization techniques.
this academic work received the best paper award at the Infovis 2006 conference.
reminds me a bit of thinking machine & pivotgraph.
[links: tue.nl (pdf) & tue.nlthnkx Danny]
one of the most symmetrical mathematical structures in the universe, calculated by 18 mathematicians over 4 years & generated by about 77 hours of supercomputer computation. as one of the most complicated of the "exceptional simple Lie groups" , "E8" describes the symmetries of a 57-dimensional object that can in essence be rotated in 248 ways without changing its appearance. according to the researchers, this "some sort of curvy, torus type of thing" ... "could well determine the deep inner structure of the universe".
see also ulam prime spiral & number spiral & math sculptures & lorenz manifold.
[links: aimath.org & aimath.org (pdf)|via nytimes.com & telegraph.co.uk]
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