Creating a pattern for diagrams gthat require a bit of circuit style visualization.
- So we go sortest path or not.
- If we change object's positoin, do the wiring/lines automatically realign?
- Paths/wiring will have configurations ... e.g width / smoothing curve.
- Layouts (shortest distance, relation between objects, length of path)
- Force (pi nnned objects).
- Collision detection
- Treat the problem as a graph and for detecting path intersections use this as example: http://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/ Mike Bostocks Spline Editor: http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4342190
- yfiles is the only solution as of yet. And its expensive.
Goals
- semi-fixed layouts with path layout
Applications
- network management
- economic flows
- circuit diagram
- game players
Requirements
- move objects (drag and drop, snapto)
- paths (width, smoothing curves)
- layout (shortest distance, relation between objects, path length)
- force (pinned objects, movement into place)
Use Case
- create
- movement into place
- describe
- connect
- improve
Existing Blocks
- spline editor
- directed graph editor
- yfiles circuit layout (loading latency problem)
Strategy
- focus on primitives
- example: line has describe, curve, layout
Participants:
- shobhitg
- jxstanford
- kenpenn
- stewartnoyce
- yanghung
- mtodd