Question

This is kindy hard to explain,

Am looking for an Algorithms that will take object that a linked to multiple other object and work out the best location to draw each object based on there links.

this would generate a tree like diagram.

So i have Object 1 then hast 10 link, one of these link is object 2 that has 5 link but object 1 link to one of object2s links and such link.

so i would have some thing like this

Object1 ———— Object2
       \                        /
         \                    /
           \                /
             Object 3

But this is on a 100% bigger scale with unlimited number of objects and links.

Any ideas how i would go about working out the best location on my form for each object?

Answer 1

Graphviz is a library doing such thing. They have references to papers in their documentation.