On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:15 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre@bergel.eu>wrote:
Hi All,
Just to give some news about Mondrian. Together with colleagues from Bern, Lille and Santiago, I have been working on this visualization engine for quite some times. Although it contains some important bugs (e.g., popupView) it is fairly stable and usable. The current version is 2.0-beta.7.
Mondrian is slowly maturing. A short summary of the discussion I had with Doru and Stéphane today. Some of the features I would like to see in for Version 3.0 are: - scalable spring layout (also known as force based layout): this is a very simple and nice layout that produces amazing results - add layers: embedding a rendering or a part of it in a layer. Layers could then be iteratively activated and desactivared. The idea is to enable the construction of scripts in a very iterative and incremental way. - having a small core embeddable in your application
I would really love to have this. A very small runtime kernel for Mondrian. For example, I would like to add the "UML Diagram" to OB but withoput needing to load all Mondrian in the image. Cheers mariano