On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Neiderer, Andrew M CIV (US) wrote:

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Not a boost programming question exactly.

I am mostly a visual analytics (VA) programmer using X3D to interact/navigate w/i a visualization. And for most of the past year learning/using BGL to build and traverse small graphs represention, e.g. terrorist networks, for information discovery.

Is there just 1 existing parser (AT&T Graphviz DOT) for r/w from a text file? This format is quite good for examining graphs; and maybe it can do 3D position vectors. But just wondering if I should consider others for 3D display of networks, and for a visual analytics technology.

I believe there is GraphML as well, and I'm not sure if there are other formats (DIMACS max-flow and min-cut)? It's easy to write your own output code, though, especially if it doesn't need to be generic across graphs with different properties.

Hope this q is appropriate, or maybe I should become more familiar with BGL first.

It is reasonable, but I'm not familiar with your domain so I don't know exactly what features you need. -- Jeremiah Willcock