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Re:D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acyli... by tcgarvin on Sunday September 09, 2018 @05:05PM (#17947790)
It hadn't even occurred to me that there were serious academic attempts at visualizations of this sort. In addition to OP, this whole discussion is full of great alternatives to d3-force (my usual go-to). Kudos to all!
Re:D3-dag – Layout algorithms for visualizing directed acyli... by johnsonjo on Monday September 10, 2018 @11:53AM (#17952649)
Yeah, this suprised me too when I first learned it, but there's a whole research field and plenty of books about Graph Visualization [0].

[0]: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3...