That very much depends on the graph you have, and the pattern you're looking for. Regardless of that, igraph has a number of graph layout options which you might want to try. The default layout algorithm is random placement on a square, which indeed might not give you very good results (but is cheap and generic).
To plot using a layout, you do a: plot(g, layout=<layout here>) Check ?layout for a list of available layout algorithms. Another nice option is using tkplot which allows you to interact with the graph and change vertex positions at will, but I'd expect it to be slower if your graph is large. Giuliano On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:40 AM, Jeff Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > HI all, > > I am newbie for igraph. Now I'd like to plot a graph with very large amont > of nodes, but the picture generated with so many edges, that I can not > easily find pattern. So is there any way to make the visualization more > smoothly and intuitive ? > > > -- > Best Regards > > Jeff Zhang > > _______________________________________________ > igraph-help mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help > _______________________________________________ igraph-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help
