Method and system for display of objects in 3d

A system for displaying a plurality of objects in a three dimensional (3D) viewing space on a display device, the system including:

• a first computing device including a processor and associated memory, the memory containing instructions for:
• receiving a plurality of objects, each of the plurality of objects having a plurality of associated metadata attributes;
• associating a point in a 3 dimensional (3D) viewing space for each of the plurality of objects, wherein each dimension is based upon one or more metadata attributes and each coordinate of the point is based upon the value of the respective metadata attributes of the object;
• adjusting the point associated with each object wherein the adjustment is performed so as to reduce the clustering of points in the 3D viewing space whilst maintaining the relative order of the points;
• providing the adjusted points to a display device;
• and
• a display device for displaying a representation of each of the plurality of objects in a user interface based upon the adjusted points received from the first computing device.

A computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method for displaying a plurality of objects in a three dimensional (3D) viewing space on a display device, each object having a plurality of associated metadata attributes, the method including:

• associating a point in a 3 dimensional (3D) viewing space for each of the plurality of objects, wherein each dimension is based upon one or more metadata attributes and each coordinate of the point is based upon the value of the respective metadata attributes of the object;
• adjusting the point associated with each object wherein the adjustment is performed so as to reduce the clustering of points in the 3D viewing space whilst maintaining the relative order of the points;
• and
• providing the adjusted points to a display device for displaying a visual representation of each of the plurality of objects to a user.

An apparatus, including:

• at least one processor;
• and
• a memory coupled to the at least one processor, the memory containing instructions for causing the processor to perform a method for displaying a plurality of objects in a three dimensional (3D) viewing space on a display device, each object having a plurality of associated metadata attributes, the method including:
• associating a point in a 3 dimensional (3D) viewing space for each of the plurality of objects, wherein each dimension is based upon one or more metadata attributes and each coordinate of the point is based upon the value of the respective metadata attributes of the object;
• adjusting the point associated with each object wherein the adjustment is performed so as to reduce the clustering of points in the 3D viewing space whilst maintaining the relative order of the points;
• providing the adjusted points to a display device for displaying a visual representation of each of the plurality of objects to a user.