4. View window

Figure 2.6. The 3D Graph View window

The 3D Graph View window

The 3D graph view sub-window is the window where the graph is displayed. It can display graph in two or three dimensions and enables to apply the mouse operation selected in the tool bar by directly clicking on the drawing of the graph. If the user let the mouse during few seconds on a node, a pop-up window displays informations about it. When the drawed graph is huge, the displaying is splitted in parts, so Tulip only draw thousand nodes and edges each times. This enables to navigate in real time in the graph even if the graphics hardware is slow.

Pop-up Window of graph view