A user interface with parameters that can be adjusted to display only a few nodes,
in order to facilitate exploration, or many nodes simultaneously, in order to facilitate
an user's understanding of a graph of nodes of information. The user interface
provides for exploring a collection of connected objects simultaneously from the
hierarchical and the relational points of view, and increases exposure to related
information while maintaining context. Parameters can be adjusted to increase or
decrease the extent of the relational context.