More Reading: Layering, Highlighting

Envisioning Information. Edward Tufte. Graphics Press, 1990.
Chapter 3: Layering and Separation

Interactive Visualization of Large Graphs and Networks
Chapter 5, Constellation: Linguistic Semantic Networks 
Tamara Munzner, PhD thesis, Stanford University, 2000, pp 87-122 
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/munzner_thesis/html/node10.html

Cluster and Calendar based Visualization of Time Series Data 
Jarke J. van Wijk and  Edward R. van Selow, Proc InfoVis 99.
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/vanwijk99cluster.html

Brushing Scatterplots, Becker and Cleveland
Technometrics, vol 29, pp 127-142, 1987 
Reprinted in Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis, edited by W. S. 
Cleveland and M. E. McGill, Chapman and Hall, New York, (1988)

Visual Exploration of Large Structured Databases, Graham J. Wills, in
New Techniques and Trends in Statistics, pp 237-246, IOS Press 1995.

TreeJuxtaposer: Scalable Tree Comparison using Focus+Context with Guaranteed Visibility. Tamara Munzner et al, SIGGRAPH 2003. 
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/papers/tj

61