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OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by StrangeOrange »

fnord77 wrote: post #48

I'm inclined to agree with Edward Tufte - the 3D part doesn't add any information to the diagrams, so it is superfluous

Interesting visuals change the way in which people engage with a diagram. You can think of it as an aspect of storytelling. Personally I find my eyes much more likely to be drawn to these isometric diagrams, compared to a 2D equivalence. The 3D aspect draws my eyes in and keeps them there. So what's being added doesn't need to be raw information that changes the facts of a diagram, it can be an aid to processing. There's a reason that visual design is a thing.

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by dr_kretyn »

swalsh wrote: post #29
dr_kretyn wrote: post #26

"beautiful" here is definitely subjective. I only see a diagram and it looks like from PowerPoint presentation from the marketing team to the sales team. Why JS world frequently uses "beautiful" or "modern" to describe its project? Often that hides something else.

You can just not post if your criticism is mean spirited.

It wasn't mean spirited but now I can see it that indeed it came out as such. Apologies. And thanks for pointing it out!

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by esseph »

kingnothing wrote: post #50

If you care, Snowflake launched a product called Openflow less than a month ago. Yours will probably be very difficult to discover.

There's also a network telemetry protocol called OpenFlow that every network engineer knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by esseph »

x0z wrote: post #44
knorker wrote: post #41

It's a bit confusing to see "openflow" diagrams that include network components, that have nothing to do with OpenFlow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow It is unrelated, right? Just a name clash with an overlapping domain?

Hahahah yes so funnily enough my dad works with the IETF, and I showed him this project and he said "I was really confused why you called it that when that's a standard" Might be due a rebrand already!

Definitely rebrand... This is going to confuse a lot of people!

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by rixed »

lovelearning wrote: post #32
x0z wrote: post #2

I've not done anything special here, just wrapped the community edition of ISOFLOW https://github.com/markmanx/isoflow and made it dead easy to set up and run. You can now export and load JSON backups of your diagrams allowing you to essentially have as many as you want, which the community version of ISOFLOW restricts. Enjoy!

I'm not very familiar with Node.js. Any idea where in isoflow's code are the graphics for those 3D-style icons? Are they SVG or what? Is it possible to add custom icons?

I was curious also. The SVGs for the isoflow library of icons is in node_modules/@isoflow/isopacks/dist/isopacks.md

(yes, svg within base64 within markdown)

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by mh- »

rixed wrote: post #55
lovelearning wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not very familiar with Node.js. Any idea where in isoflow's code are the graphics for those 3D-style icons? Are they SVG or what? Is it possible to add custom icons?

I was curious also. The SVGs for the isoflow library of icons is in node_modules/@isoflow/isopacks/dist/isopacks.md (yes, svg within base64 within markdown)

Thank you for the parenthetical there. When I read your first line I thought, "surely they didn't.."

They did.

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by mh- »

x0z wrote: post #44
knorker wrote: post #41

It's a bit confusing to see "openflow" diagrams that include network components, that have nothing to do with OpenFlow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenFlow It is unrelated, right? Just a name clash with an overlapping domain?

Hahahah yes so funnily enough my dad works with the IETF, and I showed him this project and he said "I was really confused why you called it that when that's a standard" Might be due a rebrand already!

I'm not one to pile onto the "you can't name it something that's already taken" comments, but given the name recognition within your target audience already, yeah. Plus, this will just be really hard to google.

Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by [deleted] »

x0z wrote: post #2

I've not done anything special here, just wrapped the community edition of ISOFLOW https://github.com/markmanx/isoflow and made it dead easy to set up and run. You can now export and load JSON backups of your diagrams allowing you to essentially have as many as you want, which the community version of ISOFLOW restricts. Enjoy!

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Re: OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine

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Post by smokel »

x0z wrote: post #40
donatj wrote: post #30

I am unclear exactly, what is this doing on top of Isoflow? Seems like Isoflow is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here?

No you're absolutely right, isoflow is doing 90% of the work here, I'm not hiding that, they just don't have a ready to use version like this of their community pack. That's all this is.

You aren't hiding it, but the announcement and first paragraphs in the README suggest otherwise. It comes off as a bit disingenuous, perhaps you are not aware of this?
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