1. A method for distributing representative images of a group of objects in a database for display within an area bounded by a plurality of partitions within a three-dimensional graphical environment comprising: scaling an image to obtain a scaled dimension for each image while maintaining its original aspect ratio; determining image weight factors based on scaled dimensions; determining partition weight factors based on an associated display dimension of each partition; distributing images to successive partitions dependent on the comparison of at least one image weight factor to each partition weight factor.