graph_drawing [the libarynth]

the InfoVisu group at CWI provides a good overview, and many links to papers, software, and general information on the topic http://www.cwi.nl/InfoVisu/

see also: Information Visualisation

homepage http://www.graphviz.org/
c2wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GraphViz
c2wiki http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?VisualizeTheWiki
ATT project home http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
apache logfile grapher http://www.chaosreigns.com/code/apache2dot/
preliminary experiments into springy graphs of traceroute data http://locust.f0.am/trace.html
perl interface → http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/data/GraphViz/GraphViz.html
more… see: Graphviz

Seems to be a way to create the graphs once you know how they should look. Flowcharts, etc. The one used for various FoAM diagrams, it seems. Open source, Educational licence.

http://vue.tufts.edu

“Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free.”

https://gephi.org/
future directions (2018)

“Prefuse supports a rich set of features for data modeling, visualization, and interaction. It provides optimized data structures for tables, graphs, and trees, a host of layout and visual encoding techniques, and support for animation, dynamic queries, integrated search, and database connectivity.”