Drawing a large graph with a graph

Question

Here I created a large .dot file of my facebook friends chart with fb-map . It has 287 nodes and nearly 2,000 ribs. I use dotit neatoto generate .png images using parameters overlap="orthoyx", but this does not give a pleasant effect. Too many overlapping ribs.

Do you know any set of parameters for managing such huge graphs and drawing them using the graphical interface?

Answer 1

igraph library linking algorithms seem to do a lot better with very large graphs than dot. It even includes the implementation of Kamada-Kawai and Fruchtermann-Reinhold layout algorithms.

There are modern python bindings , not to mention good documentation and tutorials .