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5th January 2004

Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

“My excitement about treemaps was great and like many innovators I thought millions of users would be using this tool within a few years. Our minds were not focused on getting a patent, since I thought this was more of a concept that a product. Brian’s implementation of TreeViz was registered with the University’s Office of Technology Liaison which sought to distribute TreeViz.”

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