MDS is one that we compared indeed. I’m sure @groma will step in to let the world know what we did but since the paper is under review now it might have to wait a bit… at least you know we tried this one, isomap and t-sne 
what I can say (and you can see in the video) is that with the same dataset they yield very different maps, and that was super inspiring for me (strangely)
edit: I say strangely because I was expecting to be disappointed by the non-optimal use of space for instance, but the localities (clusters) were immediately fun to play with, and the drawings we just beautiful!