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Time Friday Jun 9 2006 3:19pm

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Author by Brian Tags under Comments with 3 comments

About Brian:
I'm a recent graduate living in San Francisco. Supposedly, I'm also the "visionary". In reality, I'm just their taskmaster. I'm currently employed as an Associate Product Manager at Google.

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    Time Fri 9 Jun 2006 - 3:54pm Author by Drew

    Cool shits.

    I had a brother-proudness moment today when I checked my sister’s AIM profile for the first time in a while and discovered she had www.bancomicsans.com listed. WTG little sister! Fight for the right to … be an elitist font snob!

    Also: I <3 force directed layout, but I wish people would stop insisting on rendering it live. It’s cool that it’s simple and easy to do (http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/fruchterman91graph.html or http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/11922/0 for tricksier ways to do it) but it’s such a performance hit to provide the fancy live layout animation, which just adds some flashiness but little real value. The recently-popular Websites as Graphs project is quite guilty of this, too.

    But yeah, despite my reservations about the live-ness of it, I’m glad to see a JS implementation of this algorithm. Good find Sean.

    PS. Can we get comment previewing? I suspect I screwed up my HTML somewhere in this and it will make my comment very sad. :(

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    Time Sat 10 Jun 2006 - 9:46pm Author by Mark

    I mentioned this to Sean before, but prefuse is a sweet Java visualization toolkit. Very easy to use, and so sweet.

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    Time Sun 11 Jun 2006 - 2:32am Author by Nikolaus

    Seven dollars?

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