I have the following dot/neato file...
graph G
{
node [color=Red]
r01
r02
r03
r04
r05
r06
r07
r08
r09
r10
r11
node [color=Blue]
p01
p02
p03
p04
p05
p06
p07
p08
p09
p10
p11
p12
p13
r01 -- r02
r01 -- p01
r01 -- p02
r02 -- p01
r02 -- p02
p01 -- p02
r03 -- p03
r04 -- r05
r04 -- p04
r04 -- p05
r04 -- p06
r05 -- p04
r05 -- p06
p04 -- p05
p04 -- p06
r06 -- r07
r06 -- r08
r06 -- r09
r06 -- p07
r06 -- p08
r06 -- p09
r06 -- p10
r06 -- p11
r07 -- r08
r07 -- r09
r07 -- p07
r07 -- p08
r07 -- p09
r07 -- p10
r07 -- p11
r08 -- r09
r08 -- p07
r08 -- p08
r08 -- p09
r08 -- p10
r08 -- p11
r09 -- p07
r09 -- p08
r09 -- p09
r09 -- p10
r09 -- p11
p07 -- p08
p07 -- p09
p07 -- p10
p07 -- p11
p08 -- p09
p08 -- p10
p08 -- p11
p09 -- p10
p09 -- p11
p10 -- p11
r10 -- r11
r10 -- p12
r10 -- p13
r11 -- p12
r11 -- p13
p12 -- p13
}
...from which I create this graphic using neato
.
neato -Tpng -o graph-g.png graph-g.txt
Overall, neato
does a decent job, but the largest connected component in the graph looks pretty ridiculous. What can I do to make this look better? My criteria are that no nodes should overlap and there should be enough distance between connected nodes so that you can see a bit of the edge between them.
If you add the following to the top of your graph:
overlap=false;
splines=true;
The result is:
Not only the nodes do not overlap anymore, but also the edges are routed around the nodes.