Drawing large graph with graphviz

Question

I have here generated a large .dot file of my facebook friends' graph with fb-map. It has 287 nodes and almost 2000 edges. I'm using dot and neato to generate a .png image, using the overlap="orthoyx" paramethers, but it doesn't give a nice effect. Too many overlapped edges.

Do you know any set of options to manage such huge graphs and draw them in an eye-readable way with Graphviz?

Did you look at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/238724/visualizing-undirected-graph-thats-too-large-for-graphviz yet ? — High Performance Mark, Sep 16 '10 at 10:58

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '11 at 11:04

The igraph library layout algorithms seem to cope much better with very large graphs than dot does. It even includes an implementation of Kamada-Kawai and Fruchterman-Reingold layout algorithms.

There are up-to-date python bindings available, not to mention nice documentation and tutorials.

Drawing large graph with graphviz

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