Visage Web extends Visage's capabilities to cyberspace by allowing people to visualize and directly manipulate the World Wide Web. When Visage Web encounters a piece of data on the Web (e.g., text, graphics), it transforms it into a native Visage database entity.

This transformation allows people to "tear of" pieces of web pages that interest them, bring in data from other sources (e.g., databases), and combine them into new web pages that can be published back to the web. People can also use Visage's polymorphic visualization environment to view the same piece of data as a point on a scatter plot, a bar on a bar chart, and a geo-graphic coordinate on a map.

Visage Web's powerful and flexible visualizations create unprecedented opportunities for data mining and analysis. Future work will focus on creating novel user-interfaces for exploring the web, incorporating existing and emergent web technologies (e.g., XML, Java), and enabling any Visage entity to link to any other entities within or outside the Visage environment.

Here are some illustrations of how Visage-Web works.