A Visualization Primitive for Multiway Relationships

With the unprecedented wave of Big Data, the importance of information visualization is catching greater momentum. Understanding the underlying relationships between constituent entities is a common task in every branch of science, and visualization of such relationships is a critical part of data analysis. While the techniques for the visualization of binary relationships are widespread, visualization techniques for ternary or higher relationships are lacking. In this paper, we propose a visualization primitive which is suitable for multiway relationships. Its effectiveness is demonstrated in 3-D visualization.