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Thursday August 29, 2002
03:58 AM

Friend of friend

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Oooh, I like those new little icons! Is that the first step towards exporting FOAF files from use.perl? For a sample document: my FOAF file.


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  • I wondered once if it would be possible to produce a graphical map of use.perl friends or fans, centered at an arbitrary user, with a specified "radius". However I've no idea which tool to use to produce such a topological map. (and is there a more computer friendly version of the friends page [perl.org]?)
    • Sounds like a job for graphviz (and probably LWP to extract the details).

      • Actually, I wrote a while ago this kind of script, but it crashed my box every time I tried to launch it... If anyone is willing to give it a try, it's available here [briac.net].

        --
        -- briac

    • As Matt said, so long as you can extract the data it's probably a job at which GraphViz would excel (especially using its nice Perl interface ;).

      There is no more computer friendly version of the friends page that I know of (except the db behind it of course) but there was talk a few months ago of adding SOAP support to the Zoo. It shouldn't be too hard for anyone that knows a little about Slash (and even someone that doesn't). I might do it if I have the time (which could be whenever...). That bein

      --

      -- Robin Berjon [berjon.com]

      • And was this produced with GraphViz ? (which looks great anyway -- ) Producing a readable layout may be challenging due to the amount of data.
        • That was produced by a perl layout engine I hacked up that I don't own the rights to, which uses GD (for truetype fonts), Graphics::Libplot (for bezier lines), and Image::Magick to glue the two together.

          Back then, Libplot had troubles outputting .png, and GD had trouble reading them, so Image::Magick did a .gif -> .png conversion for me. What a hack. I offered to hire Thomas Boutell to put beziers into GD (was too time constrained myself at the time), but he wasn't interested.

          GraphViz handles tree

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