Re: Differentiating between Connectors and Objects

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Jul 9, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Fred Morcos wrote:

> Diagram Auto-Layouting [1], basically the "connections" act like
> springs and the "objects" act like repulsive charges. A simulation is
> ran and as the system approaches an equilibrium state, the diagram
> starts "looking good" and well "layouted".
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_based_layout
>
> PS: Using the algorithms used by "dot" (graphviz) is not really an
> option for me, it is my bachelor thesis so the tasks are pretty
> specific.

It would be lovely to have something like this.

I'd suggest concentrating on the general case (elements and maybe one,  
maybe more general lines) instead of trying to handle every last  
misimplementation of mutated crossovers that exist in Dia. The problem  
surely has enough wrinkles in the base case.

-Lars