Graphviz - Graph Visualization Software

Envisioning connections

Graphviz Site Changes

Due to organizational changes, the Graphviz web site will see some modifications in the near future. In particular, it will probably no longer provide binary packages for Windows and Macs. The latter can be obtained via Macports or Home Brew. If someone wants to set up Appveyor for Windows, we would be grateful.

Documentation

Documentation

On-line Reference Pages
User's Guides NOTE:The first two documents are not current with the features and details of Graphviz. They can serve as tutorials for understanding how to use Graphviz, but the most up-to-date documentation is provided in the on-line pages listed above.
- dot
- neato
- smyrna
- lefty
- dotty
- Cgraph library tutorial
- Using Graphviz as a library
- - pre-2.30 version
- Sample Programs using Graphviz
Manual pages
- Layout Commands
  - circo
  - dot
  - fdp
  - neato
  - osage
  - sfdp
  - twopi
- Tools
  - acyclic
  - bcomps
  - ccomps
  - diffimg
  - dijkstra
  - dotty
  - gc
  - gml2gv
  - gxl2gv
  - gv2gxl
  - gvcolor
  - gvedit
  - gvgen
  - gvpack
  - gvpr
  - lefty
  - lneato
  - mm2gv
  - nop
  - sccmap
  - smyrna
  - tred
  - unflatten
  - vimdot
- C Libraries
  - cdt
  - cgraph
  - graph
  - gvc
  - pack
  - pathplan
  - xdot
- Tcl/Tk Libraries
- Scripting APIs
  - gv.3guile
  - gv.3java
  - gv.3perl
  - gv.3php
  - gv.3python
  - gv.3ruby
  - gv.3tcl

Papers
- Graphviz and Dynagraph - Static and Dynamic Graph Drawing Tools - a condensed overview (cite)
- An open graph visualization system and its applications to software engineering - longer overview, preferred for citation (cite)
- Graph Drawing by Stress Majorization - an improved algorithm for neato (cite)
- Topological Fisheye Views for Visualizing Large Graphs - topological-based distorted views for large graphs
- A method for drawing directed graphs - dot's algorithm (1993) (cite)
- Efficient and high quality force-directed graph drawing - sfdp's algorithm (2005)
- Improved Circular Layouts - crossing reduction and edge bundling for circular layouts (cite)
- Efficient and High Quality Force-Directed Graph Drawing - the multiscale algorithm used in sfdp (cite)
- Implementing a General-Purpose Edge Router - edge routing in Graphviz (cite)
- Improved Force-Directed Layouts - Voronoi-based node overlap removal (cite)
- GMap: Visualizing graphs and clusters as maps - displaying graphs as maps (cite)
- Efficient Node Overlap Removal Using a Proximity Stress Model - Prism node overlap removal (cite)
- On-line Hierarchical Graph Drawing - dynadag algorithm
Source Documentation
- Doxygen generated documentation of Graphviz, with dot generated diagrams
Change Log
- ChangeLog.txt
Open Problems
- Graphviz Wish List

Recent comments

If the edge name is unique, can this work? No, unfortunately
4 hours 29 min ago
Thanks for the clarification.
2 days 7 hours ago
I can't speak for PlantUML
2 days 15 hours ago
My earlier comment still
2 days 17 hours ago
In a directed graph, an edge
2 days 17 hours ago
Thanks for your answer. I
3 days 8 hours ago
For sfdp, the default is to
4 days 11 hours ago
Re: Can 'dot' be run without system-wide installation?cmd/
5 days 17 hours ago
Can we use DOT to plot using the output from VIS model checker?
6 days 22 hours ago
Re: Unable to Execute Graphviz Script in Spyder
1 week 7 hours ago