On Jun 16, 2:36 am, Rado <rki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here, for example, is the Cayley graph of the alternating group A5:
>
> > A = AlternatingGroup(5)
> > G = Graph(A.cayley_graph())
> > s = G.graphviz_string()
> > f = open('graphfile.dot', 'w')
> > f.write(s)
> > f.close()
>
> Actually for this example graphviz's neato (i.e. spring model) doesn't
> do much better than SAGE's spring. What Sage seems to be missing
> completely is the functionality of dot, which is for acyclic directed
> graphs, but works with all graphs (i.e. acyclicity is not enforced).

Yes, I think I agree.  Before posting, I checked this on my laptop,
which has the old Pixelglow version of Graphviz on it.  The result
looks vastly superior to Sage's and appears to be layed out in the
hierarchical fashion specified by dot.  Although, I did nothing to
request that layout format.

Mark

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