GraphLayoutNotes
Notes on displaying graph structures
Notes on displaying graph structures
Intro/Background
Sources
Ideas for the paper
Intro/Background
Develop multiple strategies for generating aesthetically pleasing and informative displays of data structured as a graph
Sources
Wikimutherfuckinpedia's article-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_drawing
Graph Drawing Tools -
http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/~sander/html/gstools.html
Large Graph Layout -
http://lgl.sourceforge.net/
Graphviz -
http://graphviz.org
Prefuse (a java thing) -
Paper on laying out graphs in 3d hyperbolic space -
http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/h3/
aiSee (commercial graph layout software) -
http://www.aisee.com/
Ideas for the paper
Abstract axes:
Each node defines its own vector in terms of velocities along a set of axes including color, transparency, and position. Possibly shape and generic functions as well.
Needs to be moldable to an interactive interface