Exploded views for providing rich regularized geometric transformations and interaction models on content for viewing, previewing, and interacting with documents, projects, and tasks

A data presentation system, comprising:

• a decomposition component that automatically segregates at least one information item into a collection of subcomponents relating to the item by analyzing properties of the item including a type of the item, an item structure and an item content;
• an interface component to render the subcomponents in a graphical manner to facilitate user processing and interaction with the information item;
• the interface component further includes a preview display enabling users to inspect two or more non-homogeneous sets of one or more items, wherein each set comprises at least one item associated with a text application, a project, a task, a presentation, a graphics application, or an email application, and the interface component facilitates selection of a 2 or 3 dimensional axis for rendering data, files, or documents as icons or display objects allowing users to inspect, probe, and navigate among the subcomponents of the items at a focus of attention before launching a full application;
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• the interface component and the decomposition component are coupled with an offline or real-time analysis using principles of continual computation, and provide caching of rendered results so as to minimize latencies in real time.