From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 30 09:43:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01348 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01334 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:43:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA17957 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:42:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA01182; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:42:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980930184245.21565@follo.net> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 18:42:45 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Drawing tools Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message