On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 7:10 AM, David Storrs <david.sto...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like an interesting and useful project. What would you want this > solution to do, exactly?
The last public hack job I did using graphviz is something like this: https://heroku-blog-files.s3.amazonaws.com/posts/1488278436-new-architecture.png As you can see, it gets the point across, but it's not ideal from a visualization stand point. From a creation standpoint it's great! You basically declare the relationships, and a drawing comes out. https://gist.github.com/apg/8c3c8b0bed910faa272aa9e8d6b4f718 My goal is probably somewhere in between in terms of layout. I want a bit more flexibility, but a decent amount of help with layout. And, I want a lot more flexibility, and a nice set of primitives for the actual nodes themselves. Jens' metapict, and pict itself probably provide enough to take a serious stab at recreating that diagram more manually, and seeing where it falls flat, so I'll try that as an exercise next week and report back. > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 6:10 AM, Andrew Gwozdziewycz <apg...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I've been using graphviz for years for basic network architecture >> diagrams and things, mostly to avoid answering the question of "which >> annoying tool should I use?" Graphviz has limitations for the type of >> stuff I use it for, but I settle for it anyway, since it's a lot less >> frustrating to use a language for laying out relationships than >> clicking and dragging lines connecting things, in an agreed upon >> diagramming tool. >> >> Has anyone started work (or finished work, or even somewhere in >> between?) on a diagramming language that might be, or even eventually >> will be a suitable replacement for performing these types of tasks? >> >> And if not, does anyone have suggestions for getting started with >> layout drawing algorithms suitable for such a thing? I'm fairly sure >> that the pict language will do the heavy lifting work for actually >> drawing on a canvas, and simple layout techniques probably would go >> along way, but getting to know the field a bit might be useful... >> >> Cheers, >> >> Andrew >> -- >> http://www.apgwoz.com >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Racket Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- http://www.apgwoz.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
