On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Anne Etien <anne.et...@univ-lille1.fr> wrote:
> Hi Alexandre, > > In a wonderful world, I would like: > - a real graph layout (like in graphviz) that can take into account around > hundred nodes and several hundred of edges and place the nodes in order to > see something. Currently, I have to use the circle layout and it looks > strange. > Unfortunately making real graph layouts is really hard issue… I've wrote my bachelor thesis about this and didn't get very far; it's bit of a nightmare if you don't have good foundations. :'( In any case, I wrote a simpler layout delegator in Roassal that delegates the layouting to graphviz and it works reasonably well, so I could probably add it to Roassal (you however need graphviz installed and it would add another dependency to Roassal, which I'm not so keen on). Maybe also OGDF (http://ogdf.net/doku.php) could be used if you are ok with GPL… they have their own graph format so there could be some interaction. Peter
