{"id":26,"date":"2006-01-21T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T03:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2006-01-21T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T03:33:32","slug":"graphviz-related-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/2006\/01\/21\/graphviz-related-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"GraphViz &#8211; Related Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those afternoons again where I am loosing myself in doing some research on graph tools. Maybe I can spare some others an afternoon of browsing around and summarize some things I found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>kgraphviewer &#8211; this is a tool to show graphics. The exciting thing is that you can open .dot files. However, only dot is used to render them, not neato or twopi. Too bad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/zvtm.sourceforge.net\/zgrviewer.html\">ZGRViewer<\/a> &#8211; looks very promising. You can open .dot files and render them with anything (neato, twopi) the output is zoomable and you can move around. Pretty nice. It&#8217;s written in Java. Now the question is whether I could use this framework to build my animated viewer that reads the next .dot file and updates the graph nicely. I will get it done someday!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tintfu.sourceforge.net\/\">tinfu<\/a> &#8211; Another java library that draw .dot files. It had trouble with some of my .dot files. I guess the tool&#8217;s not very robust.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.att.com\/~john\/Grappa\/\">Grappa<\/a> &#8211; Another Java tool. The feature list looks promising. The Web demo is interesting. Need to download it and have a closer look.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I guess one thing that I realized is that you could principally build a graph with, let&#8217;s say twopi, and generate an SVG. Then you can manipulate that, show it to the user and so on. The question is still how to periodically update a graph without totally re-layouting it. Well, I am working on this. I think I just haven&#8217;t really understood the problem yet \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of those afternoons again where I am loosing myself in doing some research on graph tools. Maybe I can spare some others an afternoon of browsing around and summarize some things I found: kgraphviewer &#8211; this is a tool to show graphics. The exciting thing is that you can open .dot files. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visualization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raffy.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}