[Uml-devel] Re: karbon14 and uml

[Heiko Nardmann]

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On Dienstag, 15. April 2003 18:06, Andrew Sutton wrote:
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> 3. shitty layout algorithms. nobody does a really good job laying out
> diagrams. this is really a tough thing to do, and i don't want to do it,
> but i'm going to try.

Since layouting of graphs is a well known science there is probably some code 
which does this and maybe can do it for umbrello.

I suppose karbon14 has no layouting algorithms? Or at least not the complex 
ones which umbrello needs?

Nice layouts of graphs are done by graphviz/dot.

Probably the layout algorithms of photomesa are not what we need at the first 
place ... :-)


Here are some useful entries which I found using google:

http://scgwiki.iam.unibe.ch:8080/ST2002/23

ftp://ftp.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/people/Martyn.Amos/packages/graphplace/graphplace.tar.gz

Here is an interesting survey about graph drawing tools:
http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gstools.html

I also found some entries concerning graph layout using freshmeat; maybe 
someone takes a look at them ...

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