toolness/collusion — Issue #38: Graph is currently too dense-looking
Author: jonoxia
Created: 2012-02-01 01:28:09+00:00
State: open
Labels: Visuals

When the number of nodes gets high, the middle of the graph especially turns into a tangled mess of spaghetti. Lots of observers have complained about this and asked if we can spread it out more, allow nodes to be farther apart, etc.

We can try tweaking the force-directed-graph layout parameters and see if that helps. But the forces are already trying to push the nodes apart from each other; the density of the graph reflects the density of the connections in the underlying data. I suspect the nature of the phenomena Collusion is observing means that the graph is not disjoint and will not be easily separated. Not sure what the right thing to do is here.