Scrolling actually does what you think it would do. Yeah, that's really nice. I like it a lot. Thanks for the link, hadn't heard about Seadragon before. I was also alluding to the fact that you can't text search the visualization for movies ie "New York, NY" ~ "Better Luck Tomorrow", both points on an image. Maybe easier said than done, but the whole point of the visualization is to give people a better understanding of the information.
Why is it a strict 2D tree instead of a 3D mesh?
Probably just easier to display, it's going to be displayed as 2D anyway. You can be sure that the original space is many, many dimensions.
It should still be a mesh, not a tree.
The colors seem backwards to me. Red should signify the more intense connections as it is a bolder, stronger color than yellow.
Why does Lord of the Flies lead to me being recommended Lord of the Flies?
There's a 1960s version and a 1990s version -- probably one node for each