Pictures and images are easier to assimilate than text. Text is not always the best way to represent anything and everything to do with a computer programs. That is a fancy way of expressing that popular faux-Chinese proverb: "a picture is worth a thousand words". GraphViz luckily takes part of this hard problem and does a pretty good job in a couple of seconds for most graphs. Laying out graphs in an aesthetically-pleasing way is a hard problem - there may be multiple ways to lay out the same graph, each with their own quirks. This module simplifies the creation of graphs and hides some of the complexity of the GraphViz module. The GraphViz tools provide automatic graph layout and drawing. This module is an interface to the GraphViz toolset (). Make install Overview Modules in this distro o GraphViz o GraphViz::No o GraphViz::Small o GraphViz::Regex o GraphViz::XML o GraphViz::Data::Grapher o GraphViz::Parse::RecDescent o GraphViz::Parse::Yacc o GraphViz::Parse::Yapp What is a graph?Ī (undirected) graph is a collection of nodes linked together with edges.Ī directed graph is the same as a graph, but the edges have a direction. Or unpack the distro, and then either: perl Build.PL Install GraphViz as you would for any Perl module: You are strongly advised to download the stable version of Graphviz, because the development snapshots (click on 'Source code'), are sometimes non-functional. Of course you need to install AT
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