Visual Complexity
This web page shows a bunch of "maps" (I use this term lightly) that describe everything from incredibly detailed clusters to random dots and lines people felt like drawing.
A lot of these projects mirror pretty closely what Jasper and I are trying to do with web pages, which is arrange them closer together or further apart based on how much they link together... these projects just do it much better visually. However, these projects do come up with some good ways to make our project work more smoothly.
The Map of Science leads to a paper which suggests color-coding and short-hand, which could make processing the entire galaxy of web pages a lot quicker. Anymails follows a lot of the classification structure that we have been considering in our project, by classifying e-mails much like we would classify web pages. This also opens up the possibility of using different types or appearances of stars to represent different types of web pages. And many other projects are worth looking at, perhaps not for concept, but for visual ideas - sort of like looking at other people's web pages to get visual ideas for your own.
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