Thank you Graphviz

I love graphviz. You feed in data in a simple, easy to generate format and it creates the most beautifully laid out visualisations from it.

I’m trying to make a triangular waveguide mesh, and wasn’t sure if my code was doing the right thing, so ran neato over the data and got this:


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I didn’t tell it to lay them out in a hexagon, it just did because it was the simplest way of doing so. I then tried manually adding extra connections


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11 Comments

  1. Hi AnonymousInGermany, I added links to the original images, although I like the thumbnails for showing the overall effect. The nodes themselves aren’t interesting!

  2. Thx Alex, really beatiful graphs. I could really use this at work to visualize large datasets for non-techie people I work with.

    A bit more complex, albeit interactive:
    http://wiki.wxpython.org/wxOGL

    There used to be something similar for .NET. Anybody remember what that was called?

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