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SpicyNodes not only presents information, but also illustrates the relationships between nuggets in an interactive, intuitive way. As such, it fills a gap in organizing information that’s existed since humankind’s first efforts at cataloguing.

Designed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers, art designers, and programmers, SpicyNodes is, at its core, a platform for generating customized radial layouts of directed acyclic graphs.

The following pages provide a technical view into the challenges of historical and online informational displays, the underlying principles of SpicyNodes, as well as specifics about SpicyNodes’ architecture.

• Opening up new methods of organizing information. Go »

• SpicyNodes fits into a larger picture of how people browse and search for information. Go »

• Learn how SpicyNodes works, including some of the algorithms and principles involved. Go »

• Read about other projects and applications that share our mission of interactive information visualization. Go »