On Jun 16, 2:36 am, Rado <[email protected]> wrote: > > Here, for example, is the Cayley graph of the alternating group A5: > > > A = AlternatingGroup(5) > > G = Graph(A.cayley_graph()) > > s = G.graphviz_string() > > f = open('graphfile.dot', 'w') > > f.write(s) > > f.close() > > Actually for this example graphviz's neato (i.e. spring model) doesn't > do much better than SAGE's spring. What Sage seems to be missing > completely is the functionality of dot, which is for acyclic directed > graphs, but works with all graphs (i.e. acyclicity is not enforced).
Yes, I think I agree. Before posting, I checked this on my laptop, which has the old Pixelglow version of Graphviz on it. The result looks vastly superior to Sage's and appears to be layed out in the hierarchical fashion specified by dot. Although, I did nothing to request that layout format. Mark --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
