Graphviz

Graphviz
Developer(s) AT&T Labs Research and contributors[1]
Initial release before 2000 (2000)[2]
Stable release
2.38 / 13 April 2014 (2014-04-13)
Written in C
Operating system Linux, OS X, Windows
Type Graph visualization
License Eclipse Public License
Website graphviz.org
A Red-Black Tree plotted by Graphviz.
Undirected graph showing adjacency of the 48 contiguous United States

Graphviz (short for Graph Visualization Software) is a package of open-source tools initiated by AT&T Labs Research for drawing graphs specified in DOT language scripts. It also provides libraries for software applications to use the tools. Graphviz is free software licensed under the Eclipse Public License.

Software architecture

Graphviz consists of a graph description language named the DOT language[3] and a set of tools that can generate and/or process DOT files:

dot 
a command-line tool to produce layered drawings of directed graphs in a variety of output formats (PostScript, PDF, SVG, annotated text and so on).
neato 
for "spring model" layout (in Mac OS version called "energy minimised")
sfdp 
a layout engine for undirected graphs that scales to very large graphs.
fdp 
another layout engine for undirected graphs.
twopi 
for radial graph layouts.
circo 
for circular graph layouts.
dotty 
a graphical user interface to visualize and edit graphs.
lefty 
a programmable (in a language inspired by EZ[4]) widget that displays DOT graphs and allows the user to perform actions on them with the mouse. Lefty can therefore be used as the view in a model-view-controller GUI application that uses graphs.

Applications that use Graphviz

See also

References

External links

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