[Tutor] Multi Layered Graphs

Albert-Jan Roskam fomcl at yahoo.com
Mon Jan 27 19:46:14 CET 2014


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On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 11:23 PM CET Ankit Arora wrote:

>I'm working on a project which involves network graphs. Is there a library
>that can help me do this:
>
>I want to create multi-layered graphs i.e. graphs which contain a set
>number of vertices but multiple 'layers' of edges i.e. same set of vertices
>representing two or more properties in the same data structure.
>
>One rather hacky solution can be to form a complete graph in igraph and
>deal with the layers as if they were igraph edge attributes, though when
>dealing with tens of thousands of vertices on a complete graph it will be
>inefficient.
>
>Any clue if something proper exists? If not, any more intelligent solutions
>using existing libraries such as igraph/networkx?

Maybe D3py, a Python wrapper for D3.js. No experience with it but it looks great.


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