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by troelsSteegin 546 days ago
Thank you for your reply. I am thinking about variable dataflows through a fixed set of nodes -- so, the latter, growing and shrinking edges. The application would be visualizing system dynamics. The stages in the Sankey would be organized by degree of distance from an "intervention" node.
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That's very interesting! We're currently working on the plumbing to be able to assign attributes to edges as well—right now it's only possible to style/configure the nodes.

Once we have that though, there is another approach that you can take before you go down the path of writing your own visualizer/view: you can also log custom positions for each node. Since the node positions don't change in your case that might get you quite far by statically logging the nodes with a Sankey layout computed by your application.