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Rapatsk1
Positioning objects based on their relationships
Dec 9th, 2009, 2:53pm  
Hey all,

I'd like to spatially position objects based on their relationship towards one another. For instance a tag 'cloud' in which tags group together if they are commonly share the same entry. Calculating these relationships is easy enough, but I have an incredible hard time positioning them relative to each other.
Up to three is okay, but 4 already poses a problem. Tongue

Please see my sketch here, though no positioning is going on there yet.

Any help on relative positioning would be appreciated!  Smiley

Best regards,
Tiemen
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Cedric
Re: Positioning objects based on their relationships
Reply #1 - Dec 9th, 2009, 3:21pm  
If you want to be more dynamic and dont want to calculate it yourself. i would recommend to take a look at a physics library. for example traer physics http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~traer/physics/

if you can calculate the relationships you can use these data to create springs or force to group them or keep them apart.
i would say its a nice way especially when the data changes, cause the graph rearranges itself
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