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Re:Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust by graphviz on Thursday March 17, 2022 @10:11PM (#30718049)
You are drawing large graphs by hand?

ML approaches to graph layout are very exciting, since the constraints people need in real life diagrams are quite intricate, but it's still a research problem.

Re:Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust by nikolayasdf123 on Friday March 18, 2022 @12:31AM (#30718754)
yes. I would scale, zoom, adjust opacity, etc. Grouping into large/smaller clusters. Typically manual work is to do groups, their shapes, connections, how to highlight important info with colors or symbols and general meaning of X and Y axis. Very similar to drawing on a whiteboard. Whatever code I run, it is often very customized to make something exactly what I want.

ML would def benefits here to capture all these heuristics.