Comment by terrastruct
Comment by terrastruct 11 hours ago
We make (and sell) one, you can play with it here: https://play.d2lang.com/?script=qlDQtVOo5AIEAAD__w%3D%3D&lay...
Bigger example: https://play.d2lang.com/?script=rJLfavMwDMXv_RR6gYbvo3ce7FWG...
(I don't like to self promo on competitor posts, but since Mermaid doesn't compete in making its own layout engine I felt sharing this under this thread is relevant to HN. If anyone from Mermaid finds it in poor taste just let me know and I'll delete)
I tried TALA and am surprised to learn it embeds a machine learning model. I settled on ELK (very complex and time consuming to get right), before getting interested in constraint based graph layout (mostly for aligning nodes). Symmetry is nice to have too.
In fact what I'm trying to do is generating beautiful flow graph illustrations like this (non-sensical, just to give you a vibe):
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIG4.sqo88280g1BDb7r2aORg?pid=ImgG...
Tis hard. Graph layout (bites fist). Layout based image diffusion (tears). One day though.