Relative Distance Cartogram algorithm question

[Ray Jones]

Boris Dev <borisdev at yahoo.com> writes:

> If we have a distance matix can we put points on a 2
> diminsional x, y coordinate grid so that they are
> postioned relative to one another according to the
> distance matrix elements. 

Search for "multidimensional scaling".  Or follow the links and
references from this site and the paper it refers to:
http://isomap.stanford.edu/

Ray Jones

-------------
The compgeom mailing lists: see
http://netlib.bell-labs.com/netlib/compgeom/readme.html
or send mail to compgeom-request at research.bell-labs.com with the line:
send readme
Now archived at http://www.uiuc.edu/~sariel/CG/compgeom/maillist.html.