Tim, yes, Gephi is very powerful, Martin, Mathieu and the Gephi team are working on an integration right now (started as a Google summer of Code project), https://code.launchpad.net/~gephi.team/gephi/neo4j-plugin
There are some remaining issues around how to lazily load the graph and remember layout settings when moving lazily around the graph, but I think Martin is on it as we speak. For this discussion, we are looking for a good way to do limited but sufficiently powerful web based vizualisation that can be used for mostly introspection and validation of small portion the graph (e.g. in the web admin), and still operate on production on production size datasets. Very interesting discussion everyone, keep it coming! There was some mentioning of Processing.js as maybe an alternative to SVG, too ... /peter On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Tim McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > On 16 January 2011 05:34, Peter Neubauer > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> In this case, the graph layout could be computed server side by >> something like graphviz or so, and then sliced into zoom level >> information. Then interactivity can be added via open layers . >> >> However, of course the question is how long it takes to calculate the >> layout for say 100.000 nodes. After that, the basic layout info is >> more or less static. Still, very interesting to think of this kind of >> mixed approach for big visualizations, switching to dynamic solutions >> under a certain threshold, like 500 nodes or so. >> >> WDYT? >> >> /peter > > > Is there any need for database software to provide visualisations? There are > graph visualisation packages that have Neo4j backends that provide this > functionality amazingly well. If you have four minutes today, I strongly > recommend watching a video on Gephi [1]. You'll be amazed by the > beauty, speed and utility that can be achieved when built for purpose tools > are used. > > Tim McNamara > @timClicks > http://timmcnamara.co.nz > > [1] http://vimeo.com/14899695 > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
