Amber Frid-Jimenez and Philip DeCamp: Shrub: Variations on tree structures

Shrub is a series of sketches of tree structures, by MIT Media Lab students Amber Frid-Jimenez and Philip DeCamp. It starts off looking as one would expect, then wanders off into the exotic. Some feel more like drawing than visualizations.

Both Frid-Jimenez and DeCamp were involved in another project called Document Icons, a software sketch designed to allow the user to search through the contents of millions of text documents using histograms. The technique looks like it could also work well for tag heavy sites. Infosthetics blogged it here.

(via del.icio.us/tomc and infosthetics).