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#1 2011-12-12 22:55:10

mdshw5
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[solved] Visualization of PGP Master and Signing Keys

I would prefer if this was not my first post in these forums, but I was really impressed by the interactive hairball network on http://www.archlinux.org/visualize/. Does anyone know if this was developed from scratch? I inspected it and could not find any references to a source. I would like to make something similar in my research. Thanks!

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#2 2011-12-12 22:58:58

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Re: [solved] Visualization of PGP Master and Signing Keys

Sorry, I think I just found something very similar. Would still appreciate any other answers!

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#3 2011-12-12 23:17:29

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Re: [solved] Visualization of PGP Master and Signing Keys

Interesting. Looks like the Social Graph app on Facebook.

If you're interested in other graph visualisation tools, you might wish to check out DOxygen. It provides a graphical way to look at the class dependency graph of source code.

Also, there exists somewhere on the interwebz a java tool for inspecting the dependency graph of packages used in Beyond Linux From Scratch.

If you want to write something like this yourself, I think you would basically need four parts to your project:

  1. A way to read in information from text files about the structure of your graph. If you came up with a context free grammar to describe your data files, you could use Lex & Yacc for this part.

  2. A way to internally store and process your graphs after you read them in. Lemon could provide this functionality.

  3. A way to visualise graphs. FLTK would probably do for something simple.

  4. A way to decide the optimal spatial position of nodes. This would be the hard part as it is a bit subjective and you may have multiple competing criteria.

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#4 2011-12-12 23:51:27

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Re: [solved] Visualization of PGP Master and Signing Keys

All the code for the Arch website is available here: http://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/

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#5 2011-12-12 23:57:28

mdshw5
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Re: [solved] Visualization of PGP Master and Signing Keys

Thanks, Allan! That is obviously what I'm looking for, if it is everything.

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