Greetings. My first post here. I should start by complimenting the chefs -- Processing is easily the best thing since sliced bread. I have social networks visualization problem that I want to solve with Processing. I have looked at, and even gotten my hands dirty with a few existing libraries (for example, Prefuse) but none produce as beautiful results as Processing, especially Jeffrey Traer's magnificiently fun Particle Physics library, does.

So, I want to use the kind of things that the Particle Physics library does (in particular, look at the randomarboretum example -- I have been trying to work off of that codebase). <http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~traer/randomarboretum/>

Before I get too far into this, I am wondering if there are already existing attempts at this? Basically, I want to depict "actors" in a community as nodes. Clicking on a node will make that node the "node in focus" showing other nodes related to it. Zooming out will coalesce the nodes into communities which might themselves become nodes with relationships. Zooming in would show more detail -- this would be fractal-ish... relationship patterns at all scales.

Many thanks,

Update: I have already looked at one of the existing social networks library that is listed on the "Libraries" page <http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~tohollow/SocialNetworksLibrary/> but that library doesn't meet any of my requirements.