Introduction

Posted on June 27, 2008

prefuse

To understand and to use prefuse toolkit we should better at first have some knowledge about information visualization (see wikipedia and infovis wiki), especially about the visualization pipline or the reference model; Prefuse is built just with these concept. You can read further about prefuse from authors.

In my opinion, it is a good idea to understand a visualization toolkit with visualization methods as well. On this web site I would try to visualize prefuse toolkit so that we can easily understand and explore it.

This web site would not present much prefuse programming detail or example code, but mainly give a whole picture of prefuse. The official prefuse user manual is currently not complete, and there are few tutorials or instructive articles on internet. This web site may help you learn prefuse or design its application with high level view, and the prefuse javadoc should help you do further detailed programming (sometimes you may probably need to read the prefuse source code as well).

The following links should be helpful when programming with prefuse.

• Java tutorial
  
• Swing tutorial (especially Using Swing Components and Writing Event Listeners.)
  
• Java 2D
  
• Prefuse Javadoc
  

The content from this site is based on prefuse beta release 2007.10.21.