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by earless1 3906 days ago
I really like the look of these types of graphs. Is the code used to produce them available anywhere?
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faymontage 3906 days ago
(author here) The graphs are stock graphviz output, the linear layout is called "dot" (the default), and the nebulous layout is "sfdp". For your googling pleasure it's a "force directed graph layout", and there are many libraries to assist with it. d3.js has a force layout built in, for instance.
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tunesmith 3906 days ago
As far as I know, d3.js has force-directed but not "directed" force-directed like Sugiyama.
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neoCrimeLabs 3906 days ago
It's produced with a tool called Graphviz:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphviz

The main Graphviz website is down at the time of my posting this comment:

http://www.graphviz.org/

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epistasis 3906 days ago
While the exact output options aren't immediately visible, the Imgur site says that Graphviz was used, in the tree layout, and a force directed layout (probably sfdp).
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