Online Visualizer
The online visualizer generates a graphical, client-side-image-mapped nodegel graph as well as the original ASCII graph.
- http://lotus.pico.org/~josh/e2/nodegraph/ (maintained by pyrogenic)
Command-Line Visualizer
getnodes.pl (upon whose datafile this script depends) hasn't been updated to deal with cast and multi-ching. The code for the online version had been fixed, so just use the online version for now until I get it working as a shell script again.
I love visualizations. I wanted to see what my nodegel looked like. Even more, I wanted other noders to see my nodegel on my homenode. So, taking kaatunut's E2 Node Tracker as a starting point, and using the power of pipe links, I wrote a perl script that generates an ASCII, E2, or HTML graph of your nodes. Look at kaatunut's node tracker WU for instructions on turning this node into a script you can run on your computer.
One of the neat things about this tool is you can have all your nodes linked from your homenode! Of course, I suppose I'll have to add features to select only part of one's nodespace for those users with lots and lots of nodes. The more nodes you create at the same time, the longer it takes to make the graph, just so you know.
I'll probably keep updated graphs on my homenode. /msg me if you've made graphs and put them where others can see.
The scatterplots look best with link underlining set to "hover" or "never" in your browser.
Through my own testing, I've discovered my command-line parser doesn't work properly with older versions of perl (before 5.6). Just double-up your first command line option and it should work. For instance, if you want "-links +flip -nodes", use "-links -links +flip -nodes" instead.
Here is the default output for my nodegel:
$ perl nodegraph.pl
32
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| @ @
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| O O
| @ O
| OO @ O @ O
| @O@ @@ OO @
| @ @ @O O O OO OO@@OO @ O @ O
| OO OOO OO OO @ @@OOOOOO@O O OOOO @
| OO OOOOO OOO O OOOOOOOOO OOO OO
0+-@--OOOOO----O------OOOOOOO--OOO----------O------O---O-----OO--> now
| O
| OO O
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\|/
-5
Here are only my C!ed nodes:
$ perl nodegraph.pl -nodes
32
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| @ @
| @ @ @
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| @ @
| @ @ @@ @ @
| @ @ @ @ @ @
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0+-@-------------------------------------------------------------> now
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\|/
-5
Here is the output using the flip option and a different size:
$ perl nodegraph.pl +flip -size 36x20
-6<OO--@OOOOOO---@--O--------------------->32
OOOOOO@@ @
OOOOOOO@O@O @
|OOO@ O@@ O
O|OOOOOO@ @ O
O OOO@O O O
OOOOOOOO
OOOOO@@@O O @
O OOOOOO@ @ @ @ @
OOOOOO @
OOOOOO @
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| @
O
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| O
O| OOO
O|O OO
| @ @ @
O @
| O
\|/
now
Here I've changed the characters and added in the writeup-fu average line.
$ perl nodegraph.pl +flip -size 152x40 +nodes=. +cools=o +avg=!
-6<.---.-----o..---.---..o-------o-----.------------------------------------------>32
....... . . o o ! o
| . ... . o .o .. ! o
| .. . o o !
. | ... . . ..o ! .
. | .... o . !
.. ....o !
.........o. o o . . o
. . ....o. o ! o o o
..... . . ! o
. | . . o !
| !
| o !
. !
| !
| !
. | . ... !
. | . . . !
| o o ! o
. o !
| . !
\|/ !
now
The code can also be pulled off the web:
- http://stwing.upenn.edu/~josh/nodegraph.pl.unix
- http://stwing.upenn.edu/~josh/nodegraph.pl.dos
This is still the original version of the visualizer, as time permits the new version will be linked in here.
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