===== links to graph drawing code + references =====

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====CWI Information Visualisation group====
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]]

====GraphViz Project====
  * 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]]

==== VUE Visual Understanding Environment ====
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 ====
"Gephi is the leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks. Gephi is open-source and free."
  * https://gephi.org/
  * [[https://gephi.wordpress.com/2018/11/01/is-gephi-obsolete-situation-and-perspectives/|future directions]] (2018)

==== prefuse (obsolete/unsupported?) ====
"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."
  * http://www.infovis-wiki.net/index.php/Prefuse
  * http://prefuse.org/

====Tulip====
Tulip software is a system dedicated to the visualization of huge graphs (GPL) http://www.tulip-software.org

====TouchGraph (obsolete/unsupported?)====
  * http://www.touchgraph.com/index.html 

====NICHE (obsolete/unsupported?) ====
  * bell labs + comercial offshoot
  * Visualization of Very Large Graphs http://www1.bell-labs.com/user/gwills/NICHEguide/nichepaper.html 

====HOPS programming system====
  * http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~kahl/HOPS/ or 
  * http://www2-data.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de/kahl/HOPS/ 
  * (related: VisualProgramming)


====GraGra tools (obsolete/unsupported?) ====
  * lists of software included on the CD http://www.uni-paderborn.de/fachbereich/AG/engels/HBCD/ 

====Caida====
  * internet data analysis; tools and visualisation 
  * http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/otter/ 
  * http://www.caida.org/tools/visualization/walrus/