Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 09:53:29 -0800
From: Sandy Klausner <klausner@coretalk.net>
Reply-To: ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org
To: ba-ohs-talk@bootstrap.org
Subject: Re: [ba-ohs-talk] spring and force directed graphs

Chris,
Check out http://www.ontologystream.com/SLIP/index3.htm
Sandy

[snip from my posting to this list]
> Can people point me to information that has been helpful in their own
> investigations of designing, programming and using algorithms for
> drawing graphs? I'm especially interested in:
>
> - overviews of the reasoning used in designing these sorts of
> algorithms
> - design pointers for internal and external data representations of
> graphs. The current system does use XML for input, but the format is
> basically a wrapper around a matrix so does not represent node
> interconnections easily, nor cleany allow for additions of new
> nodes, or new attributes on nodes. I've seen and liked what
> Touchgraph for the Link Browser uses.
> - transmission formats
> - [important stuff I'm not thinking about at the moment]
>
> What I'd like to have at the end of this is a system that allows for
> the display of similarity matrices and clustering in the same display.
> Clusters are displayed in the network and when selected can be zoomed
> for detail of  their contents.
>
> This is more math than I know at the moment, but I guess I'll be
> picking it up.