http://forums.flowingdata.com/ Strength in Numbers en Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:51:11 +0000 http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/graphviz-alternative-or-how-to-use-it-better#post-818 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:24:28 +0000 seb 818@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If you can generate other file format like .NET, GDF, GraphML or XGMML you may be interested in Gephi in which you can set the node distance (repulsion) and apply a "label adjust" algorithm: <a href="http://gephi.org/2008/label-adjust/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/2008/label-adjust/</a></p> <p>cheers</p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3177663806/" title="Gephi Label Adjust de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3177663806_a6cbacbd5e.jpg" width="500" height="336" alt="Gephi Label Adjust" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3286817119/" title="SVG Sample 6 de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3286817119_a94373b328.jpg" width="487" height="500" alt="SVG Sample 6" /></a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/graphviz-alternative-or-how-to-use-it-better#post-815 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:33:14 +0000 seb 815@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If you can generate other file format like .NET, GDF, GraphML or XGMML you may be interested in Gephi (<a href="http://gephi.org/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/</a>) in which you can set the node distance (repulsion) and apply a "label adjust" algorithm: <a href="http://gephi.org/2008/label-adjust/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/2008/label-adjust/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3286817119/" title="SVG Sample 6 de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3441/3286817119_a94373b328.jpg" width="487" height="500" alt="SVG Sample 6" /></a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gephi/3177663806/" title="Gephi Label Adjust de gephi_org, sur Flickr" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3376/3177663806_a6cbacbd5e.jpg" width="500" height="336" alt="Gephi Label Adjust" /></a></p> <p>About supported file formats: <a href="http://gephi.org/support/supported-graph-formats/" rel="nofollow">http://gephi.org/support/supported-graph-formats/</a></p> <p>cheers </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/graphviz-alternative-or-how-to-use-it-better#post-801 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:59:43 +0000 nathany 801@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I don't have much experience with graphviz, but this thread covered some alternatives:</p> <p><a href="http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/large-network-layout-and-visualization" rel="nofollow">http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/large-network-layout-and-visualization</a> </p> http://forums.flowingdata.com/topic/graphviz-alternative-or-how-to-use-it-better#post-800 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:36:35 +0000 MyrddinE 800@http://forums.flowingdata.com/ <p>I'm using graphviz to help me figure out a new database... with tables as vertexes, and relationships as edges. But the graph layouts I'm seeing in Graphviz are all rather dismal. The graph gets 5 miles wide (default):<br /> <img src="http://www.dotnet.com/~myrddin/graphviz/default.png" /></p> <p>Extremely cramped (neato):<br /> <img src="http://www.dotnet.com/~myrddin/graphviz/neato.png" /></p> <p>Or with massive whitespace (neato + scalexy).<br /> <img src="http://www.dotnet.com/~myrddin/graphviz/neato-scalexy.png" /></p> <p>The last is the most usable, but I'm thinking there have to be better visualization layout engines that can take a .DOT file and create tight bunches of related groups, separated by minimal whitespace. This should be possible either as an option in Graphviz that I'm not aware of, a pre-process tool that puts the XY coordinates into the .DOT file for Graphviz to use, or a completely different graphing engine.</p> <p>I'm rather new to this, so please... be gentle. And money is a factor... I have none, so free would be nice. </p>