Automating XKCD-Style Narrative Charts

Re:Automating XKCD-Style Narrative Charts by jamessb on Sunday March 27, 2016 @05:12PM (#11371582)

>Like all good developers, rather than attempt to build it myself, I had a good look around to see if anyone else had attempted the same thing, and it turns out, someone had. Unfortunately, the example I found isn’t open source, so we had to build it ourselves.

I came across an open source (MIT licensed) project to draw these kind of charts a few years ago: https://github.com/bhagany/nchart

(The algorithms used by nchart and d3-layout-narrative are not the same)

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Re:Automating XKCD-Style Narrative Charts by drzax on Monday March 28, 2016 @10:44PM (#11379155)

I remember seeing this (or something like it) around the time I embarked on my project. Unfortunately, I needed a JS solution.

Another that has be pointed out to me since talking more about my project is http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~tanahashi/storylines/

It's written in Python and looks like it produces really nice output, but I haven't had time to look at it in detail yet.

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