>>1-20-05: Back from the grave! Our server switched from PG to MY SQL, and we had extensive changes to make.
MonkEllipse was an entry in the 2004 Information Visualization contest, where it won a second-place prize. Click the image below to launch the Flash application. In some browsers you can make it fullscreen with F11.
Inexplicably, Netscape/Mozilla/FireFox have a few visual quirks, but are otherwise fully functional. There IS a search box above the button, and the square in the upper left is meaningless.
The problems this program was designed to solve can be found at the contest repository, along with documents describing our system and a video explaining its power. MonkEllipse is programmed in ActionScript 2.0 and PHP, and the data is in an SQL database. It was originally made for a class in Information Visualization, taught by John Stasko. The team, alphabetically:
Much credit goes to W. Bradford Paley, whose TextArc program was the initial inspiration for our visual design.