Techniques to present hierarchical information using orthographic projections

An article of manufacture comprising a storage medium containing instructions that when executed enable a system to:

• generate a tile for each node of hierarchical information;
• arrange tiles for nodes of a same hierarchical level into a planar layer;
• arrange the planar layers in a vertical stack;
• and
• generate a three dimensional orthographic projection with the vertical stack of planar layers each having multiple tiles.

An apparatus, comprising:

• an orthographic projection application arranged to manage a three dimensional orthographic projection of hierarchical information, the orthographic projection application comprising:
• a hierarchical information component operative to receive hierarchical information representing multiple nodes at different hierarchical levels, and parse the hierarchical information into a tree structure;
• a orthographic generator component operative to generate a graphical tile for each node, arrange graphical tiles for each hierarchical level into graphical layers, and arrange the graphical layers in a vertical stack;
• and
• an orthographic presentation component operative to present a three dimensional orthographic projection of the hierarchical information with the stack of graphical layers each having multiple graphical tiles.