Visualizations : Test v :

Bernice again

i like names

Mercan Topkara

Mercan Topkara: This was a very connected graph, hard to see how it would be in real life, made me wonder why they are not all connected, or some parts of the network is missing.

Generations from steven

OK, OK, I’ve got a somewhat rectilinear bent, so sue me :)

A Linear Approach

I try to put on one side the target points and in the opposite side the source points. Also, I try to make a visual shape that resembles a baby or rocking chair.

Clustering difficult to see at first. Many nodes with rather large number of links. Looked as if all nodes had as many links. Several nodes could serve as center.

ugh

done

This is Pierre, I just posted a graph with one crossing. This is more an iq test than a test of taste, right? I don’t remember my courses on graph theory, but I assume there is at least as many crossings as there are cycles in the graph. Funny how I couldn’t reproduce the former graph, this one is garbage. The eye gets pulled randomly by its own interpretation of the graph..

There are three basic patterns that appealed to me:
1) central node like a hub in a bike wheel
2) vertex node like the pivot point for a folding fan
3) a fringe node that is part of one of the above 2 configurations
sought to achieve balance in angles (not too acute or obtuse).

Of the tests, I like how this one turned out the least. But then, this one has the most connections and thus the most crossed lines.

looks optimal to me.

We should introduce Christopher to Kimberley

Andrew passes a cordial, “Hi.” to Erin.

Eric – the social butterfly

ok

knots out

I started putting more connected nodes on the center, trying to avoid line crossing as much as possible. Then, once I individuated two main groups of connections, I just tried to make a clear division between them by separating spatially nodes belonging to the two subgroups. I also tried to avoid, just for esthetical reasons, parallelism and ortogonality of different lines.