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Graphviz – Graph Visualization Software

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Graphviz – Graph Visualization Software

From the webpage:

What is Graphviz?

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical domains.

Features

The Graphviz layout programs take descriptions of graphs in a simple text language, and make diagrams in useful formats, such as images and SVG for web pages, PDF or Postscript for inclusion in other documents; or display in an interactive graph browser. (Graphviz also supports GXL, an XML dialect.) Graphviz has many useful features for concrete diagrams, such as options for colors, fonts, tabular node layouts, line styles, hyperlinks, rolland custom shapes.

I thought I had posted on Graphviz but it was just a casual reference in the body of a post. I needed to visualize some graphs for import into a document and that made me think about it.

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Dorothy: Graphviz from the comfort of Clojure

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

Dorothy: Graphviz from the comfort of Clojure

From the post:

I’ve used Graphviz quite a bit in the past. When I did, I was almost always generating dot files from code; I never wrote them by hand other than to experiment with various Graphviz features. Well, string-slinging is a pain. Generating one language from another is a pain. So, inspired by Hiccup, I threw together Dorothy over the last couple evenings. It’s a Clojure DSL for generating DOT graph representations as well as rendering them to images.

For a few hours work, the documentation is pretty thorough, so I’ll leave off with one simple example which is translated from the Entity Relationship example in the Graphviz gallery. Any feedback or criticism is welcome and encouraged.

Instructive on Clojure, useful for DOT graph representations. That’s a win-win situation!

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