From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-10-10T07:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Hypergraph?

zuzu wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 05:24:41 +0900, Phil Tomson <ptkwt@aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
>>In article <41682BF5.1070805@hypermetrics.com>,
>>
>>
>>Hal Fulton  <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I've looked a little at Hypergraph (http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net) and I
>>>like it so far.
>>>
>>>It's a Java thing.
>>>
>>>How good are are our current Ruby-Java bridges in terms of being able to
>>>manipulate something like this from within Ruby?
>>>
>>
>>Can't a lot of the same functionality be acheived with GraphViz?
>>
>>Also, are there any C/C++ libraries for doing this?  It would probably be
>>a lot easier to Swig a C/C++ library than to try to interact Java.
>>
>>Phil
> 
> 
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/
> 
> from the same organization who brought us CROWDS (perl based
> anonymizing proxy, which has disappeared from their website) and
> Natural Voice text-to-speech synthesis
> [http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html] (plus, UNIX, C,
> C++...)

Well, again I have some familiarity with GraphViz, but I still don't see any
evidence it can handle hyperbolic display. I've just looked over the docs
again.

Is this a new feature that isn't in the docs yet?


Hal