Re: TM Visualization

Hi Lars,

Thanks for your prompt reply and useful links. If nothing else pops up we'll try some of the Java libs.

Regards,
Christo

-----Original Message-----
From: Lars Heuer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2011 4:04 PM
To: Dichev, Christo
Cc: topicmapmail-Zo64W7twoUFWk0Htik3J/[email protected]
Subject: Re: [topicmapmail] TM Visualization

Hi Christo,

> We are working on storytelling support based on Topic Maps where we need
> an intuitive visualization of the storylines. Touchgraph we were using
> in the past is not sufficient for this task. Are there any other open
> source alternatives for TM visualization?

I don't know good TM visualizations, I can only recommend some libs

* Prefuse (Java)
  <http://prefuse.org/>
  Unfortunately, the development slept in a bit (although the
  community around the project is still active), the Flash counterpart
  Flare is more active
* Prefuse Flare (Flash)
  <http://flare.prefuse.org/>
* D3 (JavaScript)
  <http://mbostock.github.com/d3/>
* Protovis (JavaScript)
  <http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/>
* JavaScript InfoViz (JavaScript)
  <http://thejit.org/>
* Raphaël (JavaScript)
  <http://raphaeljs.com/>
* Processing (Java)
  <http://processing.org/>
* Processing (JavaScript)
  <http://processingjs.org/>
* Gephi (Java)
  <http://gephi.org/>
  Gephi is more a complete app than a lib to create your own
  visualizations, though

I used Prefuse a bit and Protoviz for browser-based visualizations,
but my current preference is D3 for browser-based visualizations.

Best regards,
Lars
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