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It used to be a that the barrier of entry of creating a new tool was high - so we had to use popular pieces of software, often stretching them, or writing plugins (that had their own constraints).
Now it is often easier to write from scratch a new piece of software, for which with have full control.
We can stand on the shoulders of giants - not just "a giant".
1. Make graphs from Clang's AST.
2. Invent some style flourish to help follow an edge that becomes part of a bundle of many edges.
It is one of the game changers of AI. It used to be a that the barrier of entry of creating a new tool was high - so we had to use popular pieces of software, often stretching them, or writing plugins (that had their own constraints). Now it is often easier to write from scratch a new piece of software, for which with have full control. We can stand on the shoulders of giants - not just "a giant".
Also judging from the final two images (dot vs iongraph for the same large graph) it’s clear that dot is optimized for minimal area where iongraph does not. That’s the trade off. The author claims one is more easy to navigate than the other, I think that’s debatable.
Ultimately I found that visualizing large graphs is rarely helpful in practice; they can certainly look nice for some well defined graphs, but I rarely saw well defined graphs in the wild. Ymmv but maybe some would agree?
To be more accurate, the comparison is not with Graphviz, but with dot(1). Graphviz is a visualization framework and it includes many layout engines, implementing different algorithms: dot, neato, fdp, sfdp, circo, twopi, ... It would be great if this new custom algorithm were to be contributed to Graphviz.
[1] https://graphviz.org/doc/info/lang.html [2] https://graphviz.org/docs/layouts/dot/
anyone working on this space easily gets a +1! I have struggled with code to diagram tools for a while [mermaid and graphviz], and usually return to figjam when I need the readabilty and aesthetics. graph-viz is MASSIVE and a binary. mermaid requires the browser's svg rendering system to work. I just need something that builds diagrams from description easily ...
anyone working on this space easily gets a +1! I have struggled with code to diagram tools for a while [mermaid and graphviz], and usually return to figjam when I need the readabilty and aesthetics. graph-viz is MASSIVE and a binary. mermaid requires the browser's svg rendering system to work. I just need something that builds diagrams from description easily ...
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Looks nice. Two things on my wish list: 1. Make graphs from Clang's AST. 2. Invent some style flourish to help follow an edge that becomes part of a bundle of many edges.
It is one of the game changers of AI. It used to be a that the barrier of entry of creating a new tool was high - so we had to use popular pieces of software, often stretching them, or writing plugins (that had their own constraints). Now it is often easier to write from scratch a new piece of software, for which with have full control. We can stand on the shoulders of giants - not just "a giant".