Visual Explorations

My thesis assertion has always been the visualization of dissemination patterns in a particular scale-free network. How does a particular disease travel from point A to B, which nodes it affects in its course and how fast if contaminates a large cluster or the entire network. The path and duration of a certain fad, idea, or virus, in a social/biological or computer network has been, since the beginning, a critical point of awareness. However, I quickly found out that this premise is based on the assumption that the target network displays a visual structure suitable for analysis. Naturally, most of the time, this assumption is incorrect. Since a visual representation of a dissemination pattern cannot exist without a functional visual representation of the underlying network, I decided to dedicate my time, for now, to the visualization of complex networks. I’ve been delving into a set of visual explorations, collecting problems and proposing solutions. Part of this initial study can be seen in my first thesis prototype presentation, on the link on the right.