On 24 October 2011 13:51, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > How does diagrams compare with graphviz? If this is an inappropriate > (type-wrong?) question thats ok :-) Its just that when I last looked at > graphviz I found the documentation somewhat impenetrable -- like much else > in Hackage -- lots of types, no examples.
How is it now, better? If not, what kind of more documentation would you like? The difference between the two is: graphviz requires an external command to create the visualisations and is suited towards converting graph data into an image using various heuristics to try and make it look nice; diagrams seems to be more towards drawing specific images following specified rules. So, you could implement something like graphviz using diagrams as a backend, but you'd then need to have some transformation from a list of points+edges to actual 2D coords, etc. Hmmm... might be interesting to try and use dot/neato/etc. to do the layout of a graph, and then use diagrams for the actual visualisation... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
