Week 6

This week I focused on getting making the content of the tree easier to view. This is a real problem because the size of a given taxa can be have 100s of elements. I added "Fisheye" and "Bifocal" distortions to the tree to try and remedy this but neither provided a satisfactory result.



Instead, of focusing on this I added dragging functionality to the tree, so that the user can reorient the tree according to their needs. This is not an entierely satisfactory solution but for now it allows me to view all of the tree.



In addition to this I added the names of the species and made the nodes expandable and contractable. This also presented technical problems which I am working to resolve.