Introduction
GraView is a simple but highly efficient visualization tool for mathematical graphs. The main focus is not on features but on the possibility to display huge graphs (> 10^5 nodes and arcs). It has been developed with a specific application in mind, namely the visualization of large time-expanded networks arising in Train Timetabling applications.
The frontend tool is written in Ruby with QtRuby for the graphical user interface. The rendering is done in a C++ extension with OpenGL.
The graphs are specified in simple plain text format that allows to specify several graphs and series of graphs in a single file.
Installation
The easiest installation is as ruby-gem:- rake gem
in the source directory to generate the gem
- gem install pkg/graview*.gem
to install the generated gem
The GraView can be started using the command grav.