> Le 24 févr. 2016 à 10:35, Peter Uhnák <[email protected]> a écrit :
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Anne Etien <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre,
> 
> In a wonderful world, I would like:
> - a real graph layout (like in graphviz) that can take into account around 
> hundred nodes and several hundred of edges and place the nodes in order to 
> see something. Currently, I have to use the circle layout and it looks 
> strange.
> 
> Unfortunately making real graph layouts is really hard issue… I've wrote my 
> bachelor thesis about this and didn't get very far; it's bit of a nightmare 
> if you don't have good foundations. :’(

I know. I tried but my mathematical background and my time were not enough. I 
got the research paper explaining the algorithm of Graphviz but even with that, 
it was very complex. However, since some tools (as graphviz) do it, we should 
have it.

Anne
> 
> In any case, I wrote a simpler layout delegator in Roassal that delegates the 
> layouting to graphviz and it works reasonably well, so I could probably add 
> it to Roassal (you however need graphviz installed and it would add another 
> dependency to Roassal, which I'm not so keen on).
> 
> Maybe also OGDF (http://ogdf.net/doku.php <http://ogdf.net/doku.php>) could 
> be used if you are ok with GPL… they have their own graph format so there 
> could be some interaction.
> 
> Peter
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