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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2008
Nan Cao, ShannXi Province, CN;
Shi Xia Liu, Beijing, CN;
Hui Su, Beijing, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for generating 3D carousel visualization of large-scale tree data, which comprises the steps of: receiving a user's selection of a node in the carousel; according to the radius of a sub-carousel corresponding to the user-selected node and the radius of a carousel at which the selected node is located, judging whether or not the sub-carousel can be expanded at the carousel at which the selected node is located; expanding the sub-carousel at the carousel at which the selected node is located, if it is determined that the sub-carousel can be expanded at the carousel at which the selected node is located. A device capable of implementing the method is provided. The number of carousel levels visualized on a visualization device can be adjusted dynamically, and the visualization of a focus becomes more prominent, and relationships between nodes at each level of the tree data visualization get more apparent.