Description
Walrus is a 3D hyperbolic graph visualization tool developed by CAIDA (Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis) at UC San Diego's San Diego Supercomputer Center for exploring large-scale network topologies. It uses 3D hyperbolic space to display large hierarchical directed graphs containing tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of nodes, taking advantage of hyperbolic geometry's exponential growth property to fit more data into the visible area. Originally developed to visualize internet topology data — the routing paths and autonomous system relationships that form the internet's backbone — it renders graphs as interactive 3D structures that users can rotate and navigate through.
