Choose algorithm, font size, and borders

To choose algorithm, font size, and borders use the Main tab.

• Treemap implements three Layout Algorithms
  Slice And Dice - Stable and ordered, but poor aspect ratio. It can generate long skinny rectangles, but is very good to compare sets of items side by side. Note the "flip slice and dice option".
  Squarified - Best aspect ratios, unordered, medium stability. The nodes will move when the size changes.
  Strip - Ordered, moderately good aspect ratios with some exceptions, medium stability. The nodes move, but not as often as in Squarified Algorithm.
  
  You will find that the best choice of algorithm depends largely on your data and task, so try all three versions using the menu in the "Main" tab.
  
  Note that in all the cases, nodes that have a size of zero will not appear on the screen, and that subtrees that have too many nodes to be drawn will appear black because the 1 pixel border drawn to separate nodes are black.
• Label font size
  Making the size = 0, hides the labels but their values remain visible on the cursor activated popup window.
• Border padding
  This padding helps see the grouping of nodes in subtrees, but pixels are "lost" with this padding. So reducing the size of the padding may reveal more nodes. Reducing the font size also helps regain pixels.

Hide borders: will remove ALL borders and padding so that every pixel is dedicated to the painting of nodes. But watch out that adjacent nodes of the same color will appear to be merged. Turning this control on and off several times is helpful to gain an understanding of the structure of the tree and see details as well.

Restore default settings in Treemap: simply reloads the file you last opened.