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“spring model” layouts.
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is a reasonable default tool to use for undirected graphs that aren’t
too large (about 100 nodes), when you don’t know anything else about the graph.
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attempts to minimize a global energy function, which is equivalent to
statistical multi-dimensional scaling.
The solution is achieved using stress majorization, though the older Kamada-Kawai algorithm1, using steepest descent, is also available.
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