auto-layouts.md

Experimenting with Auto-layout Algorithms

This section provides a visual comparison of the results of different layout algorithm applied to the same set of objects.

The default is a very basic grid layout algo that's implemented in the current LayoutManager. Other algorithms are provided by the following projects and have been tested in py2max/tests:

1. networkx - a general network analysis library in python.

2. graphviz - well known graphing library (activated via networkx and pygraphviz)

3. adaptagrams hola - using the libdialect library and its HOLA algo: Human-like Orthogonal Network Layout

4. pyhola - a sibling project which provides a pybind11 wrapper for the adaptagrams HOLA graph layout algorithm.

5. tsmpy - An orthogonal layout algorithm, using the Topology-Shaped-Metric (TSM) approach covers some of the experimentation in various methods on how to auto-layout objects in a pymax generated file.

6. OrthogonalDrawing -- a fork of tsmpy using a variant of Topology-Shaped-Metric (TSM)

Default Layouts

Default Horizontal Layout

Default Vertical Layout

Adaptagrams Layouts

adaptagrams-hola Layout

pyhola Layout

Networkx Layouts

networkx-spring Layout

networkx-hamada-kawai Layout

networkx-planar Layout

networkx-shell Layout

networkx-spectral Layout

networkx-circular Layout

Graphviz Layouts

graphviz-dot Layout

graphviz-neato Layout

graphviz-fdp Layout

graphviz-sfdp Layout

graphviz-twopi Layout

TSMP Layouts

tsmpy-uselp-0 Layout

tsmpy-uselp-1 Layout

tsmpy Layout

OrthogonalDrawing Layout