Hi. Except small and sparse graph, 3D force-directed/spring model automatic layouts creates big hairball and it is very hard to browse. I've tried igraph and it creates nice 3D visualizations, but in many cases, our users (mostly scientists) say, "it's cool...but what's the point? Does it give us new insights by extra dimension?"
Are there any people working on this fundamental problem? Thanks, Kei 2010/10/12 Alex Averbuch <[email protected]>: > Hey, > igraph already supports 3D layouts and makes the vertex coordinates > programmatically accessible. Maybe Jung or something similar (and Java > based) would offer the same functionality? > > igraph is written in Python so not the idea solution, but for a proof of > concept you could hardcode the coodinates that igraph gives you. Then once > the actual visualizations are working, work on your own (or integrate with > another library) layout algorithms. > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Christopher Schmidt < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I think that the most tricky thing will be the algorithm, that places the >> nodes and associations in a 3D space. >> >> Christopher >> >> Am 2010 10 12 11:08 schrieb "Andreas Kollegger" < >> [email protected]>: >> That would be super cool. 3D could be beautiful, and possibly allow more >> interesting visualizations of a graph. In addition to an overview of the >> "scene", it would be fun to play with 1st person and 3rd person views of >> the >> current node. >> >> What would be an easy proof-of-concept? >> >> /Andreas >> >> >> On Oct 12, 2010, at 1:19 AM, Andrew Andkjar wrote: >> >> > I have not seen one in my Internet travels, h... >> _______________________________________________ >> Neo4j mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user >> > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Keiichiro Ono http://www.keiono.net/ _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
