psmah@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Paul S. Mahler) (06/21/88)
I have an application that draws a collection of connected boxes on screen. Boxes can be added, changed in size, or deleted. Each box can be connected to one or more other boxes. One box may have or more lines connecting it to another box. What I need is an algorithm that can take the list of boxes and interconnections and figure out how to position them so that they look nice on screen when they are drawn. Things like avoiding crossing lines. This seems to me to be a problem that has been solved for pc-layout, for example. I would greatly appreciate any information on sources of algorithms for this sort of graphics layout. Thank you in advance, Paul Mahler ...sun!plato!paul <----please send replies here