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November 7, 2013

dagre – Graph layout for JavaScript

Filed under: D3,Graphs,Graphviz,Javascript,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 10:39 am

dagre – Graph layout for JavaScript by Chris Pettitt.

From the webpage:

Dagre is a JavaScript library that makes it easy to lay out directed graphs on the client-side.

Key priorities for this library are:

  1. Completely client-side computed layout. There are great, feature-rich alternatives, like graphviz, if client-side layout is not a requirement for you.

  2. Speed. Dagre must be able to draw medium sized graphs quickly, potentially at the cost of not being able to adopt more optimal or exact algorithms.

  3. Rendering agnostic. Dagre requires only very basic information to lay out graphs, such as the dimensions of nodes. You’re free to render the graph using whatever technology you prefer. We use D3 in some of our examples and highly recommend it if you plan to render using CSS and SVG.

Note that dagre is current a pre-1.0.0 library. We will do our best to maintain backwards compatibility for patch level increases (e.g. 0.0.1 to 0.0.2) but make no claim to backwards compatibility across minor releases (e.g. 0.0.1 to 0.1.0). Watch our CHANGELOG for details on changes.

You are delivering content to the client side, yes?

I don’t have a feel for what “medium sized graphs” are the target so would appreciate comments on your experiences with this library.

One of the better readmes I have seen on GitHub.

I first saw this in a tweet by Chris Diehl.

February 15, 2012

Graphviz – Graph Visualization Software

Filed under: Graphs,Graphviz,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 8:35 pm

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.

August 14, 2011

Dorothy: Graphviz from the comfort of Clojure

Filed under: Clojure,Graphs,Graphviz — Patrick Durusau @ 7:10 pm

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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