
In chapter 3, we examine some fascinating ways to spatialize the
Web in order to create information spaces that are
comprehensible and, in some cases, navigable.We present a
wide range of spatializations that have employed a variety of
graphical techniques and visual metaphors so as to provide
striking and powerful images that extend from two-dimensional
“maps” to three-dimensional immersive landscapes.These
spatializations are important because they provide interpretable
images for data that were previously very difficult to
understand. For example, topological structure data of traffic in
the logs of a large website are almost impossible for humans to
interpret, because they are held in large textual tables, tens of
thousands of lines long, that provide no tangible referents other
than attribute codes but that, once spatialized appropriately, are
relatively easy to interpret.