Visualizing Trees

These sketches demonstrate some of the trade-offs involved in visualizing taxonomic trees. In classic taxonomic trees the parent taxa intersects the branch in the center (illustration on the left) . While this system has the benefit of following a convention it resulted in trees that required much more horizontal screen real estate. To counter this I choose to use the indented tree lay out (illustration on the right)

This mock up demonstrates a more complete model of the visualization system's interface.