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== Biological Questions / Use Cases == This is an RFC to create a core Cytoscape plugin that will support "Excentric Labeling".
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== General Notes == First off, what exactly is "Excentric Labeling"?
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== Requirements ==   "Excentric labeling is a dynamic technique of neighborhood labeling for data visualization. When the
  cursor stays more than one second over an area where objects are available, all labels in the neighborhood of the
  cursor are shown without overlap, and aligned to facilitate rapid reading. A circle centered on the position of the cursor
  defines the neighborhood or focus region. A line connects each label to the corresponding object."[1]
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== Deferred Items == Here is an example, taken from [1]:
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== Open Issues == attachment:excentric1.png
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== Backward Compatibility == == Background ==
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== Expected growth and plan for growth == This RFC is the result of Allan Kuchinsky's initial exploration / evaluation of the ["InfoVis_Toolkit"]. As part of his evaluation, Allan built several prototypes, including one which demonstrates the excentric label features provided by Info``Vis. There is a movie of the prototype available on the ["InfoVis_Toolkit"] page.

== Status of Code ==

The plugin is currently available as a prototype, and is available in Subversion:

http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/agilent/kuchinsky/ExcentricLabelsPlugin/

#== Biological Questions / Use Cases ==

#== Requirements ==

#== Deferred Items ==

#== Open Issues ==
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[1] Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant, '''Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization''',
HCIL Technical Report 99-09 (December 1998); http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil CHI’99 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 15-20, 1999, 512-519.
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RFC Name : Excentric Labeling in Cytoscape

Editor(s): Allan Kuchinsky, Ethan Cerami

Status: Open to comment

TableOfContents([2])

Proposal

This is an RFC to create a core Cytoscape plugin that will support "Excentric Labeling".

First off, what exactly is "Excentric Labeling"?

  • "Excentric labeling is a dynamic technique of neighborhood labeling for data visualization. When the cursor stays more than one second over an area where objects are available, all labels in the neighborhood of the cursor are shown without overlap, and aligned to facilitate rapid reading. A circle centered on the position of the cursor defines the neighborhood or focus region. A line connects each label to the corresponding object."[1]

Here is an example, taken from [1]:

attachment:excentric1.png

Background

This RFC is the result of Allan Kuchinsky's initial exploration / evaluation of the ["InfoVis_Toolkit"]. As part of his evaluation, Allan built several prototypes, including one which demonstrates the excentric label features provided by InfoVis. There is a movie of the prototype available on the ["InfoVis_Toolkit"] page.

Status of Code

The plugin is currently available as a prototype, and is available in Subversion:

http://chianti.ucsd.edu/svn/csplugins/trunk/agilent/kuchinsky/ExcentricLabelsPlugin/

#== Biological Questions / Use Cases ==

#== Requirements ==

#== Deferred Items ==

#== Open Issues ==

References

[1] Jean-Daniel Fekete and Catherine Plaisant, Excentric Labeling: Dynamic Neighborhood Labeling for Data Visualization, HCIL Technical Report 99-09 (December 1998); http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil CHI’99 Pittsburgh, PA, USA, May 15-20, 1999, 512-519.

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