From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 1 03:07:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22816 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:07:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zwei.siemens.at (zwei.siemens.at [193.81.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA22810 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 03:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lada@pc8811.gud.siemens.at) Received: from scesie04.sie.siemens.at (root@[10.1.140.1]) by zwei.siemens.at with ESMTP id MAA03822; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:08:22 +0200 Received: from scegud01.gud.siemens.at (scegud01.gud.siemens.at [195.3.240.30]) by scesie04.sie.siemens.at () with ESMTP id KAA27373; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:01:18 +0200 (METDST) Received: from pc8811.gud.siemens.at (pc8811.gud.siemens.at [195.3.22.159]) by scegud01.gud.siemens.at (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28174; Thu, 1 Oct 1998 10:01:18 +0200 (METDST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980930184245.21565@follo.net> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 10:12:04 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Siemens Austria AG From: Marino Ladavac To: Eivind Eklund Subject: RE: Drawing tools Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30-Sep-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: > Thinking about what I usually want to illustrate, I find that it tend to > boil down into relations between different boxes, where the actual layout > isn't too important - there are a number of constraints ("this should mirror > that", "this line should connect these two boxes", "this circle should be > above this box") and apart from that I don't care, as long as the result is > reasonably coherent. > > This sounds like it is clearly doable by graph-organization algorithms, and > thus it sounds likely that somebody has done it :-) > > Do any of you know of usable software that does this? I'm not looking for > PIC - I'm looking for something that does much more on its own, after I've > just specificed the constraints. I don't really care if I specify the > constraints in a GUI or text file (with a slight preference for text). vcg in ports/graphics /Marino > > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- Marino Ladavac Date: 01-Oct-98 Time: 10:11:35 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message