Squarified Treemaps

By Mark Bruls, C. Huizing, Jack van Wijk. VisSym, 2000

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PhotoMesa: a zoomable image browser using quantum treemaps and bubblemaps (2001, methodology): “An important ensuing treemap algorithm, called squarified treemaps, gave up on ordering, but created rectangles with smaller aspect ratios [10].”
D³ Data-Driven Documents (2011, methodology): “The stack layout computes the y0 baseline for stacked graphs [11, 4], while the squarified treemap layout [31, 3] computes another spatial partition well-suited for animation (see §5.”
prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization (2005, background): “Available layouts include random, circular, grid-based, force-directed, top-down [40], radial [48], indented outline, and tree map [10,44] algorithms.”
Crowdsourcing graphical perception: using mechanical turk to assess visualization design (2010, background): “This result suggests that the “squarified” optimization objective of leading treemap algorithms [3, 35] may rest on tenuous perceptual footing, and that viewers benefit from the inability of the algorithm to achieve its objective.”