NAME

       springgraph - renders a graph from a .dot file

SYNOPSIS

       springgraph [OPTIONS] < input-file.dot > output-file.png

DESCRIPTION

       Springgraph will read in a .dot file description of a graph, which, for each node, specifies its name and
       which other nodes it is connected to, and then renders a graph. The output is a PNG file.  Each  node  is
       drawn  as  an ellipse, and each connection is drawn as an arrow. The node placement is a result of all of
       the nodes moving away from each other, while all nodes which are connected move toward each  other.  This
       movement is repeated until it stabilizes.

       Springgraph  was  written  as an alternative to neato, which is part of graphviz. It attempts to read the
       same .dot files used by graphviz, but currently only supports a limited number of node attributes  (label
       and  fillcolor)  and can only handle two nodes per edge definition ("node1 -> node2", not "node1 -> node2
       -> node3").

OPTIONS

       springgraph accepts the following options:

       -p              Create a file that can be rendered with POV-Ray

       -v              create a VRML file

       -s              this option specifies the scale. All of  the  node  locations  are  multiplied  by  this.
                       Increase  the  scale  to  eliminate  node  overlaps. Decrease the scale to make the graph
                       smaller.

       -t              make the background of the resulting image transparent.

       -b              set background color of image, specify it in the form RRGGBB, in hex digits, e.g.  FFFFFF
                       is white, 000000 is black, FF0000 is red, ...

       -l              set the line color, same format as the background color

       -h              display usage synopsis

EXAMPLE

        digraph {
         "rene" -> "myon";
         "mvo" -> "rene";
        }

SEE ALSO

       neato(1)                       sig2dot(1)                       http://www.graphviz.org/Documentation.php
       http://www.graphviz.org/cvs/doc/info/lang.html

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Kevin M. Rosenberg <kmr@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but
       may be used by others).

                                                September 5, 2005                                 SPRINGGRAPH(1)