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patri26281
Visualizing a directory based on valence
May 11th, 2005, 7:07am  
Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone can give any hints on how to get started on making a visualization like fry's valence demo?

I've read his thesis and understand the concept, but I don't know how to get started using the code?

I've already written a class that'll traverse a directory structure, and then dumps in the information into an XML file.

I'm using tex's proHTML to parse it in processing.

This is my first time into graphics programming so I don't really have an idea what to do.

Thanks all for helping.
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rgovostes
Re: Visualizing a directory based on valence
Reply #1 - May 12th, 2005, 5:11am  
Is the source code to Valence available? I don't see a link.
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fry
Re: Visualizing a directory based on valence
Reply #2 - May 12th, 2005, 7:07am  
no, the source code is not available.

what it's doing is what's called a "graph layout" algorithm. one such example is this one:
http://java.sun.com/applets/jdk/1.0/demo/GraphLayout/example1.html

which is what i got started with, then kept working on it until i found something that i liked visually, but more important, was looking at how data changes over time (rather than just looking at the graph/tree structure).
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patri26281
Re: Visualizing a directory based on valence
Reply #3 - May 13th, 2005, 12:00am  
Thanks fry! Smiley
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