Beamtrees

Beamtree is a small project done for the information visualization labratory course. Based on the paper "Beamtrees: Compact Visualization of Large Hierarchies" from Frank van Ham and J. van Wijk. Beamtrees are an enhancement of the well known Treemaps.

Our program is capable of displaying parts of a filesystem as a Beamtree.

The application is build on top of the Jungle Rumble 3D engine which lead to a very short development time.
We used the ray-cylinder intersection algorithm presented at www.geometrictools.com.

Project Members:

• Michael Schwaerzler: Programming
• Martin Knecht: Programming