[plt-scheme] Tree layout

From: Matthias Felleisen (matthias at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 5 21:06:21 EST 2010

Isn't this something they could do without Dot? 

(Now at this point I should probably recommend writing the whole thing as a Redex program in drscheme and just visualizing it with the Dot backend, which is built-in :-) 


On Jan 5, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Todd O'Bryan wrote:

> Depending on how pure you want to be, it should be pretty easy to
> coerce your data into GraphViz's dot format and then get a decent PNG
> or SVG image. One of my students wrote a Java program to visualize
> binary trees using this strategy last year.
> 
> http://www.graphviz.org/
> 
> Todd
> 
> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Robby Findler
> <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>> There isn't a particularly good tree-drawing library in the standard
>> distribution (not sure about planet).
>> 
>> Robby
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Jordan Johnson <jmj at fellowhuman.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Is mrlib/graph currently the best library for drawing trees within DrScheme?
>>>  I'd like to draw some binary trees but thought I'd check here first before
>>> jumping off and doing any coding (especially since I suspect it'll be a
>>> while before I get to it unless it's a <1hr job).
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Jordan
>>> 
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