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| author | Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun, 02 Aug 2015 08:14:20 -0700 |
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| 69 Interactive JavaScript HTML 5 Diagramming Library; | |
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| 52 | 75 * d3: http://d3js.org/ |
| 76 * http://maxdemarzi.com/2012/02/13/visualizing-a-network-with-cypher/ | |
| 77 * https://github.com/ignacioola/insights | |
| 78 * http://blog.nextgenetics.net/?e=7 | |
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| 56 | 87 * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ajgu : Graph database with several |
| 88 backends architecture in mind | |
| 89 * https://bitbucket.org/lcrees/graphalchemy : graphalchemy is a | |
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| 93 * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netgraph&sektion=4 : | |
| 94 netgraph -- graph based kernel networking subsystem | |
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108 directed graphs are web pages and the edges of the directed graphs are |
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114 clicks on a link, a new edge is added by reading HTTP REFERER. A toy |
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| 42 | 156 [Planned] WSGraph should be able to import and export any of the |
| 157 standard graph formats | |
| 40 | 158 |
| 42 | 159 * JSGN (native) |
| 40 | 160 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_Modelling_Language |
| 161 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphML | |
| 162 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_Graph_Format | |
| 163 * http://www.gupro.de/GXL/ , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GXL | |
| 164 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_language (Graphviz) | |
| 165 | |
| 166 | |
| 42 | 167 = Resources = |
| 168 | |
| 40 | 169 Python packages related to graphs: |
| 170 | |
| 171 * graph-tool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph-tool , | |
| 43 | 172 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/graph-tool , |
| 173 http://projects.skewed.de/graph-tool/ | |
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| 180 | |
| 53 | 181 * http://sigmajs.org/ |
| 182 * graphdracula | |
| 44 | 183 * http://arborjs.org/ |
| 184 | |
| 40 | 185 |
| 48 | 186 Other external libraries and tools: |
| 40 | 187 |
| 48 | 188 * Graphviz: the old, the venerable, and still the king |
| 40 | 189 * tulip: http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/ |
| 42 | 190 * GUESS: http://graphexploration.cond.org/ |
| 191 * Java Universal Network/Graph Framework : http://jung.sourceforge.net/ | |
| 43 | 192 * graphthing http://graph.seul.org/ |
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| 49 | 195 * graphthing: http://graph.seul.org/ |
| 53 | 196 * gephi: http://gephi.org/ ; the open source graph visualizer |
| 40 | 197 |
| 48 | 198 Let's not forget |
| 199 * ganv: Ganv is an interactive Gtk canvas widget for graph-based | |
| 200 interfaces; | |
| 201 http://dev.drobilla.net/browser/trunk/ganv (though see also | |
| 202 http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/quantal/libs/ganv and | |
| 203 http://harryhaaren.blogspot.com/2012/12/getting-to-grips-with-flowcanvas.html | |
| 49 | 204 ) |
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| 42 | 207 See also http://k0s.org/links/?q=graph |
| 40 | 208 |
| 43 | 209 (And what is |
| 210 https://github.com/tinkerpop/blueprints/wiki/GraphML-Reader-and-Writer-Library ?) | |
| 40 | 211 |
| 212 Parallel Efforts | |
| 213 ---------------- | |
| 214 | |
| 215 * http://k0s.org/hg/IntentMadeManifest/ | |
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| 221 * a tool to take graphml embedded in a webpage (or other suitable | |
| 222 format) and generate a graph in the chosen form (e.g. <img | |
| 223 src="_generated_graph.png"/> or whatevr we can hammer into HTML | |
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| 227 Jeff Hammel | |
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| 229 http://k0s.org/hg/WSGraph | |
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