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Re: [igraph] using the Graph.layout_drl function
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Gábor Csárdi |
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Re: [igraph] using the Graph.layout_drl function |
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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:13:30 +0100 |
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Tamas Nepusz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
>> I've just recently been playing with the python igraph interface. I
>> want to do a graph layout on a network w/ about 70k nodes. The layout
>> algorithm seems to complete. But the layout has a massive vertical
>> line of nodes in the middle. That is, many nodes seems to retain an
>> "x" value of near zero in the layout.
>>
>> Is this normal? Is there an easy fix? Is there more info on the DrL
>> algorithm?
> I don't know whether it's normal or not; it might have happened that
> there are a few nodes that are connected only very loosely to the rest
> of the network and these were placed very far from the Y axis,
> effectively squeezing the rest of the network into the area close to the
> Y axis. I'm not sure. If I were you, I would try the original DrL
> implementation and read its documentation as well (I think it's in the
> downloadable source code package):
>
> http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~smartin/software.html
Another explanation is that DrL is not working well for unconnected
graphs. At least not with the default parameters.
Gabor
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