re needed plotting package that does in article full gl apr dolphin pts mot com full gl pts mot com glen fullmer writes looking for a graphics cad or whatever package on a x unix box that will take a file with records like n a b p where n a count integer a entity a string b entity b string p type string and produce a networked graph with nodes represented with boxes or circles and the vertices represented by lines and the width of the line determined by n there would be a different line type for each type of vertice the boxes need to be identified with the entity s name the number of entities and vertices it would be nice if the tool minimized line cross overs and did a good job of layout i have looked in the faq for comp graphics and gnuplot without success any ideas would be appreciated thanks glen fullmer glen fullmer pts mot com hi see roger grywalski s response to re help on network visualization in comp graphics visualization amongst other things it does exactly this chris murphy chris alta oh com columbus oh
