Focus+Context

Leung and Apperly taxonomy
A Review and Taxonomy of Distortion-Oriented Presentation Techniques. Y.K. Leung and M.D. Apperley, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 1994, pp. 126-160. [http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/papers/Leung94.pdf]

Nonlinear Magnification Fields
Nonlinear Magnification Fields. Alan Keahey, Proc InfoVis 1997 [http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/keahey97nonlinear.html]

2D Hyperbolic Trees
The Hyperbolic Browser: A Focus + Context Technique for Visualizing Large Hierarchies. John Lamping and Ramana Rao, Proc SIGCHI '95. 
[http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/lamping95focuscontext.html]

3D Hyperbolic Graphs
H3: Laying Out Large Directed Graphs in 3D Hyperbolic Space. Tamara Munzner, Proc InfoVis 97 [http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/h3/]

TreeJuxtaposer	
TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility. Munzner, Guimbretiere, Tasiran, Zhang, and Zhou. SIGGRAPH 2003. [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/papers/tj/]

hyperbolic geometry background, if time

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