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On Nov 17, 2003, at 9:57 AM, Peter Simon wrote:

> How long will it be before the various network visualization programs
> produce Lombardi edges?

My guess: not soon, although I may be biased by the fact that I work
primarily with very large networks, and I am not an expert in graph
layout; I just know a couple of algorithms. Layout for such networks
is already computationally expensive enough without trying to get fancy
about how edges should be drawn. I don't even have a good guess for
how to construct a general heuristic for doing Lombardi-style layout.
(How long did it take Lombardi to lay out his networks once he'd drawn
enough of these charts to find out what worked and what didn't?)

Regards,

Joshua O'Madadhain

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