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Cone trees: animated 3D visualizations of hierarchical information

Robertson et al., 1991

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15989746828471022710
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Robertson G
Mackinlay J
Card S
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Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems

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The task of managing and accessing large information spaces is a problem in large scale cognition. Enwrging technologies for 3D visualization and interactive aninlaiion offer potential solutions to this problenl, especially when the structure of the information can be …
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