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purpleidea | 4 months ago

I'm the main author of https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/ and we use a lot of graphs. (Mostly DAG's actually.)

In particular we'll have a DAG and then add nodes and edges to it, and then remove some and so on... It would be nice to visualize these changes. We currently use graphviz, but it's not "stable" so a diagram jumps around a lot when we look at snapshot to snapshot...

If (1) we could guarantee some kind of stability and (2) if we could even animate the transitions, that would be incredibly useful for visualization.

If this is possible, I'd love to hear about it!

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cess11|4 months ago

Put d2 watch on a file, replace the file step by step from a script.

It's a hack but might be good enough.