> 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 > _______________________________________________ > Moose-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.list.inf.unibe.ch/listinfo/moose-dev
