Information Visualisation
2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/IV51561.2020.00097
2020
Drawing Network Visualizations on a Continuous, Spherical Surface
Rodighiero, Dariohttps://doi.org/10.1109/IV51561.2020.00097
Despite the great literature regarding network visualizations, their graphic representation is hardly an object of investigation. Sometimes it deserves more attention, especially when individuals are represented. Visually translating communities in networks, for example, implies that some individuals are always situated at the borders of the representation. This assumption is clearly unfair, especially if each individual in the community is connected with everybody else. To address this lack of design justice, the community is represented on a spherical network where the surface is continuous. In that space, individuals can be situated in a sparse area, but never on the edges. The spherical network is then projected onto a flat surface to improve readability by making use of cartographic projections.
