Graphviz: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:32, 30 September 2024

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It has important applications in networking, bioinformatics, software engineering, database and web design, machine learning, and in visual interfaces for other technical domains.

examples: https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/tools/Graphviz/examples/index
PythonGraphviz
dot-to-ascii web editor: https://dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com/
graphs in the Aesthetic Programming book made with graphviz: https://aesthetic-programming.net/ (OSP, Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox)
OSP workshop at Karlsruhe with etherdot: http://osp.kitchen/workshop/karlsruhe/ (June 2023)

dot language

digraph {
  hello -> xpub
}

digraph {

  A [label="Hello" shape=diamond]
  B [label="XPUB" shape=box]
  C [label="1" shape=circle]

  A -> B 
  A -> C 
  A -> D 

}

Nodes and edges

Graphviz works with nodes and edges:

@@ Line 13: / Line 13: @@
 ==dot language==
 <syntaxhighlight lang="dot">
-digraph D {
+digraph {
+  hello -> xpub
+}
+</syntaxhighlight>
+[[File:Hello-xpub.dot.png]]
+<syntaxhighlight lang="dot">
+digraph {
    A [label="Hello" shape=diamond]
@@ Line 26: / Line 34: @@
 </syntaxhighlight>
-[[File:Hello.dot.svg]]
+[[File:Hello.dot.png]]
 ==Nodes and edges==