A blog about internet / visualization / flex
I’ll make my intro short. I’m a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe in San Francisco (formerly Macromedia), and a member of the FlexBuilder engineering team. This is a blog about rich internet applications, data visualization, Flex programming, and FlexBuilder. Now, go read the next post.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
This is very impressive… and very cool. I cannot wait to review the code.
Graphing (visualization) algorithms are an obvious deficit within the Flex framework. Your work is a huge step to that type of functionality. Thanks for contributing to the community.
FYI, the first thing that struck me was a thought regarding annealing boundaries. In other words, the annealing alogorithm provide for incremental improvements to the node layout. At some point that incremental process should reach a change boundary and “stop” or abort. That would then allow “other” processes to not be impacted by a continually running layout process.
November 17th, 2006 at 5:22 pm
Welcome to the blogsphere. Hope more Instresting things come to community.
pround to you to release all the source code for community.
Good shot brother.
November 19th, 2006 at 3:49 am
Thomas - thanks for the feedback. I hope you have fun with it. The code (in ForceDirectedLayout.relax()) tries to avoid doing any work when there hasn’t been much motion, but it has a very small threshold. In the next build, which I will release in a few days, you’ll be able to control this via a SpringGraph property. I will also change the default so that it doesn’t go on for so long. Thanks for pointing this out.
November 19th, 2006 at 9:29 pm
Hey, thanks for your kind remarks, Igor. I hope that the source code will help other developers create something even better. I’ll try to keep this blog interesting; I intend to publish other Flex stuff as time permits.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Execellent.
Would appreciate an example with xml that included an image similar to your Amazon.
March 2nd, 2007 at 3:49 am
Hi Mark,
We are planning to use the spring graph component and want to discuss a few things regarding this. What is the best possible way to reach you?
Hope to get in touch soon.
Till then thanks a lot for a great component.
Regards,
zia ahmed.
April 1st, 2007 at 7:06 am
Mark,
The roamer is very cool visualzation tool! Maybe you can cover building the xml for the backend. By any chance have you built any tools with Coldfusion — like a query to xml parser that might work well with the roamer?