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While I'm not quite as excited as this guy, a how-to on squarified treemaps article takes us on a tour of the most successful visualization techniques in addition to providing some illumination on a rather tricky problem.

It also provides a reminder that Microsoft has taken the value of circular user-interface layouts to heart.  In a lot of common everyday operations in modern computing circular layouts (and high fidelity zooming) can provide:

1. noticable performance advantages in speed and accuracy
   
2. fun
   
3. better memory due to novelty of the spacial characteristics
4. a whole slew of new up-the-ante on OS X cheesy effects

Maybe we'll be spared #4, but this visual whizbang aspect to the future of computing has the potential to run Linux from geeky to square.  The Gnome guys know they need a better graphics subsystem and perhaps Mozilla does too with SVG rising. 

I never imagined I'd use trigonometry and physics regularly on the job when I was in secondary school. 

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Posted at 17:59, Published in: UI