Force Directed Layout is a data visualization tool designed to act as a standalone physics sandbox. Through the use of straightforward interactions between forces and objects the scene can display vertex-edge relationships loaded from a .csv file.
In this gif, the user's mouse cursor rotates the Bounding Box and Atoms connected with Springs. Gravity has been temporarily disabled and the Coulomb and Hooke forces have reached a stable configuration.
Current Release v1.2
Release Notes
- Added parser for reading from .cvs files
- Added Hooke's Law to each edge to act as a spring with ideal length
Past Releases v1.1
Release Notes
- Edge abstract class now meet the Updateable interface
- Minor Gravitational / Coulomb constant tweaks
- OpenGL >3.3
- Processing 3.0
- A display that can handle 800 x 600 resolution
- Due to Processing limitations, all files must be in the same directory. Thus there can be no file structure for separation of services within the code structure.
- Special thanks to Tufts University professor Remco Chang without whom this visualization would be impossible.