Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, based on graphviz

Re:Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, ... by benbjohnson on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:42PM (#11015713)

I really like the idea of animating graphviz graphs. It definitely helps to make them clearer.

I know it's a proof of concept but one suggestion would be to animate the line drawing itself. That's difficult if you're outputting a raster format but if you're feeling adventurous then you could output to SVG and draw the lines using the stroke-dashoffset trick:

https://css-tricks.com/svg-line-animation-works/

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Re:Show HN: GraphvizAnim, a tool to create animated graphs, ... by mapio on Monday February 01, 2016 @04:46PM (#11015751)

The `gvanim.jupyter` module is actually using SVG, so that would be awesome! Would you like to contribute? I'll be glad to accept a pull request :) I have opened an issue https://github.com/mapio/GraphvizAnim/issues/3 to keep track of your suggestion.

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