About Fractal Maps
Key Features
Fractal Maps offer more power and flexibility to users than other existing visualization technologies bacause Fractal Maps:
- Provide better insight into business data. They give at one and the same time in an elegant screen display the overview, the detail and the context of corporate information, websites and databases. In addition, analytical insight can be afforded by the use of colour-coding to enhance meaning.
- Navigate large information sources extremely quickly. The technique can give users access to any one of tens of thousands of files, categories or folders in one click, and access to several million in just two.
- Work with a wide range of information sources. Fractal Maps can be built for the widest possible range of corporate information sources including:
- Websites
- Information services
- Databases
- Networks
- Scale to any amount of data and any screen size. They can display extremely large data structures, and can at the same time give access to those structures in a very small display area without losing high speed access or reducing the quality of the display.
- Are fully programmable. Fractal Maps can be easily customized and extended with the Fractal:SDK in terms of their look-and-feel, integration with data and applications, the user interface etc.
- Install and run simply and intuitively. Fractal Maps are easily understood and manipulated by most first time users, and are visually appealing. Their power is readily apparent on demonstration. In addition, implementation, customization and installation is straight-forward.
By moving your mouse over a circle and "hovering" over it (by keeping the mouse still) for a short time, you will see labels appear to show you the titles of the page you are hovering over (at 12 o'clock) and the pages it is linked to.
In addition, the Fractal Map will show a "crumb trail" for the page you are viewing by highlighting the relevant circles in red. The smallest red circle represents the page you are viewing and any "parent" pages higher up in the website structure will also be highlighted red showing you the route you would take to reach the page. Note that the homepage itself is never coloured red in this way.
