One interesting use for Linear Optimization is to do constraint-based UI layout - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/

One interesting use for Linear Optimization is to do constraint-based UI layout - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_%28software%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassowary_%28software%29 . I wonder how Glop would compare to Cassowary? EDIT Unfortunately the documentation for the Google OR suite is pretty sparse.