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This is very useful.

I have been using a similar program for Windows for ages : SequoiaView http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visu...

It seems that it has been written by the folks who wrote the paper that you referred to.

The first analysis can take some time, though. How fast is your implementation for Mac ?

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The speed really depends on the size of the view and the depth of the objects. The pixel dimensions of a folder determine whether to render it's children. I'm normally able to live resize the window without too much chugging, but as you hit higher resolutions the speed drops.

At some point I hope to get it into Grand Central Dispatch and see what effect that has, the nature of the visualization makes it perfect for being parallelized.

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