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It's always bugged me that large language models are possible, and yet no one can write a locally available tool that can reflow blocks and arrows to achieve ae
by glitchc 3y ago
It's always bugged me that large language models are possible, and yet no one can write a locally available tool that can reflow blocks and arrows to achieve aesthetic beauty. Omnigraffle comes close, but there's nothing available on Linux and Windows is still stuck with Visio.
Now I know folks are going to suggest programmable interfaces like GraphViz and Plantuml, but those are not the same thing.
Why can't there be a tool where I just draw the boxes and arrows, and the tool aligns everything to make it look pretty?
- ygra 3y agoI'm biased here, but have you taken a look at yEd [π] (or yEd Live [7] for something that runs in a browser) In general however, graph drawing is a set of not that trivial problems to solve. There are a handful of layout styles out there that can, depending on the tool, be configured more or less well. But many of them are fairly specific to graphs with a certain structure. [π] https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed [7] https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/ https://www.yworks.com/yed-live/