neato

“spring model” layouts.

neato 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.

neato 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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