What is Graphsurfing?

Fundementally, Graphsurfing is a Wikipedia visualization tool. You can search up your favorite Wikipedia article and move around the neighborhood of articles related to it in 3D space. Each article in the resulting network of Wikipedia articles displayed as a node. Click Examples to look at example networks or Home to generate a network starting from a Wikipedia article of your choosing!

Controls

left click : rotate

right click : pan

scroll : zoom

hover over node : previews the Wikipedia article corresponding to the node

node left click : navigate to node and center rotation axis around node

node right click→Show Connected Articles: shows the connections to an article

node right click→Expand Network Using Article: adds more articles to the network using the right clicked article as a starting point

node right click→Open Article in New Tab : opens the right clicked article in a new tab

Demonstration

More Details

You can think of Wikipedia as a directed graph where an edge from article A to article B signifies that article B is a hyperlink in article A. In this sense, the network articles displayed in this program is a bounded breadth first search of the graph of all Wikipedia articles starting from the article you enter in the search bar.

You can view the edges connected to a node by right clicking it and selecting Show Connected Articles and extend the breadth first search starting from a node by right clicking it and selecting Expand Network Using Article.