Thanks Ciprian! Cheers, Alexandre On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Ciprian Teodorov <ciprian.teodorov@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everybody,
During the weekend I had a look at the Roassal project and I found it very good. Moreover I find that asking around the community for good ideas to drive the future of the project a cool initiative.
About that, I completely agree with Ben's first 3 directions. Other cool ideas in terms of ergonomy can be found in the Yed graph drawing tool.
From my experience working on computer-aided design tools for the electrical (electronical) industry i can say that one very important feature that these kind of tools need is the ability to create/edit large hierarchical graphs. From my perspective a electrical circuit is nothing more than a large graph of interconnected elements with each node representing a physical device. Hierarchical composition of such structures is necessary to ease the understanding of the system. In consequence IMHO being able to easily dive-in and get-out of hierarchical components is the most important feature that Roassal is missing right now. Just imagine looking at a layed-out graph of ten interconnected nodes, then just by clicking on one of these nodes the view is replaced by another graph representing the inner components. Furthermore I believe that such an approach can be abstracted away to more complex interactions (opening a view with an editor window on that particular instance of the node, etc).
Another feature that I think it is missing in most (if not all) graph viewers/layout systems/editors is the possibility to have connection ports on the hierarchical nodes in order to preserve the connections passing through the hierarchy.
some pointers:
http://www.slideshare.net/teodorov/tools-and-crossbarbased-nanocmos-architec...
http://stiff.univ-brest.fr/~cteodorov/manuscript-teodorov_FINAL.pdf
Cheers,
Ciprian Teodorov
On Sep 26, 2012 6:16 PM, "Vanessa Peña Araya" <van.c.pena@gmail.com> wrote: Thank you, Ben. And yes, this is the kind of things that are very useful.
3. Electrical Software Development Platform - CRITICAL priority Of course, my own project to complete my masters within the next couple of months!! This is implementing a model browser for the IEC 61970 Common Information Model. I showed this to Alex a while ago and am just now getting back to the point I was at before switching from Mondrian to Roassal. While this has taken a while I am very happy with the additional control I have with Roassal (and a lot of this time has been too many demands by my day job). Perhaps a rough early release is not too far away. I'm sorry but I don't know this, so I don't understand really. Is there some place I can see it?
As yes, the features you mentioned are interesting. You are not the first to mention features 4, for example.
Thank you very much :)
Vanessa.
Alexandre Bergel wrote: This is not that we do not have ideas :-)
Our todo list includes: - book chapter on Roassal - exporters (e.g., HTML, SVG, JavaScript) - semantic zooming - way to compose shapes - scalability
We obtained this list from our personal needs and the need of the Moose and VW communities.
Vanessa is working on a proposal for ESUG to help us on the development of Roassal. We are therefore surveying the Pharo community in case of there is a wished feature that we did not see or did not put high on our todolist. We are currently maintaining Roassal (i.e., fixing bugs) and pursuing our innovation effort (i.e., implementing cool ideas). The ESUG support will help us increase our productivity.
And yes, we would love to see someone use Roassal to visualize genome, DNA and other biological data. We are ready to provide a strong support.
Cheers, Alexandre
On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Hernán Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't know your project scope, but these pointers may help you to grab some features to implement:
http://www.tm4.org/mev/features
Also take a look into the Circular Genome Viewer: http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/cgview/gallery.html
specially the browsable maps
http://wishart.biology.ualberta.ca/BacMap/cgview_linked_maps/NC_003198/index...
check out the Expand+ and Rotate+ operations
Other very nice engine is Circos
which contains plots that has been published in Science, Nature and PLOS.
Cheers,
Hernán
On 25/09/2012 11:48, Vanessa Peña Araya wrote: Hello! As you probably know, Roassal was presented at ESUG. We received a lot of positive feedback from you and also a lot of request for features. Thank you very much!
We want to start working on this, but also prioritize what seems to be more urgent. For this, we would like to survey the community about 1 - what are the features you would like to see in Roassal. Please, provide a list of features requests and tell us about their priority 2 - scenarios where you would like to use Roassal.
Thank you very much, Vanessa.
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