Spike-Graph Layout Improvements

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✨ Ravestate is Roboy's reactive dialogue state library.

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Spike-Graph Layout Improvements #140

Open josephbirkner opened 4 years ago

josephbirkner commented 4 years ago

Here are a few suggestions for improvements that might improve the understandability of the Raveboard Spike graph:

[ ] Make sure that dependent spikes/acts are always positioned to-the-right-of and at-same-height-or-below their parents.
[ ] Instead of hiding finished activations, keep displaying them, e.g. in transparent grey?
[ ] Make sure that unfinished activations are always displayed in the right-most column.
[ ] When hovering over a node, highlight parents recursively?

nbasargin commented 4 years ago

Good ideas here! I definitely agree on keeping the finished activations in a different color. Highlighting parents recursively: maybe do this on click to keep the ability to hover a node and see its direct parents?

Advanced positioning needs more thoughts. There are lots and lots of cases.