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Tag Archives: visualization

Painting LabelWidgets on top of the ConnectionWidget – Netbeans Visual Library

I was fiddling with the Netbeans Visual Library again, trying to show a complex graph on screen and I run into a problem: There were so many connection in the graph that some widgets were hard to read because the ConnectionWidget arrows were printed over them.
So I tried to I try to rearrange the [...]

Force Directed Layout in NetBeans

I just came up with the idea of reproducing the GraphView demo I saw in prefuse by using the Netbeans Visual Library API.

The GraphView demo uses a Force Directed Layout algorithm to dinamically position the nodes on the screen. It’s really fast and cool. Download prefuse and experiment with it by yourself.
I [...]

More graphs

I continue looking for graph visualization software. I rn into prefuse. Looks promising, take a look into the gallery to see some examples.

But it´s still only a toolkit so it means that I have to develop at least a little application to be able to visualize my graph. I tried using the examples that [...]

Graph visualization

After spending a bunch of time with the graphviz utilities (neato, dot, circo and twopi) trying to create a graph to understand the software dependencies between modules in a project I´ve been I assigned I realized that those tools don´t work well with large graphs. I tried and tried with no luck, I thought that [...]