MotionGlyphs allows biologists to visually explore and
abstract dense spatio-temporal network data in collective
animal behavior. The figure presents the same time
instance of golden shiner fish data in a node-link diagram
(left), MotionGlyphs representation (middle), and with
additional clustering (right). The color of the movers
displays the speed (blue to red), and the links (light
blue to dark blue) encode the similarity between movement
properties (direction, speed, distance to each other). The
example above shows how MotionGlyphs abstract
relationships and aggregate movers into groups to reduce
visual clutter and highlight different group structures.