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Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by Groxx »

That looks awesome. Hard to believe it's open source & free. I'm definitely hanging onto this site, thanks for the link!

edit: trying it on my Mac now, it runs quite well on some sample data (a couple thousand nodes). The UI and a couple things reek of open-source-projectitis, but overall it's quite good, with a couple display / coloring bugs. Could use some more built-in displaying tools, as it's a little meagre at first attempts, but that'll probably come with time.

Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by Groxx »

jcdreads wrote: post #2

Naive question: is "graph viz" a term of art that happens to be easily confusable with "GraphViz", the graph rendering software?

It appears to be, as this doesn't seem to import any GraphViz file formats natively (sadly). From the user manual, it does sound like there's a plugin to handle them, though it's a bit ambiguous, so it may just be as an example of a possible plugin.

Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by rman666 »

_Related question_: Anyone know of a software to display points in 3D space on screen and allow the display to be rotated left, right, up, down, etc. (in real-time using mouse or keyboard)? I need it to run on Windows or Linux Ubuntu. Gephi looks awesome, but my data points are just 3D points, not a network.

There used to be a program called MacSpin which was perfect for my needs, but is no longer available (and I don't have a Mac).

Bonus if I can add values to change the size and color of the points, and/or label them. Extra bonus if the software is Free and/or Open Source.

Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by mbastian »

Groxx wrote: post #4
jcdreads wrote: post #2

Naive question: is "graph viz" a term of art that happens to be easily confusable with "GraphViz", the graph rendering software?

It appears to be, as this doesn't seem to import any GraphViz file formats natively (sadly). From the user manual, it does sound like there's a plugin to handle them, though it's a bit ambiguous, so it may just be as an example of a possible plugin.

I'm Gephi main dev. Supporting DOT file format is in our roadmap and will be done very soon.

Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by idm »

rman666 wrote: post #5

_Related question_: Anyone know of a software to display points in 3D space on screen and allow the display to be rotated left, right, up, down, etc. (in real-time using mouse or keyboard)? I need it to run on Windows or Linux Ubuntu. Gephi looks awesome, but my data points are just 3D points, not a network. There used to be a program called MacSpin which was perfect for my needs, but is no longer available (and I do…

If you can borrow a mac, Grapher is waiting for you. It's free with OSX, it's current, and it easily handles a set of 3d coords. I highly recommend it.

Re: Gephi - The Open Graph Viz Platform

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Post by lallysingh »

rman666 wrote: post #5

_Related question_: Anyone know of a software to display points in 3D space on screen and allow the display to be rotated left, right, up, down, etc. (in real-time using mouse or keyboard)? I need it to run on Windows or Linux Ubuntu. Gephi looks awesome, but my data points are just 3D points, not a network. There used to be a program called MacSpin which was perfect for my needs, but is no longer available (and I do…

Hmm, that sounds pretty specific. The best I can think of is a thin shell over Ogre3D? http://www.orgre3d.org
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