visualizing data by satisfying constraints

[ahdinosaur]

it seems as though visualizing data is well-described as a constraint satisfaction problem. i wonder what would be possible if we were to build some tooling around this idea, where not only can we do node layout through solving constraints but also the size of the nodes, etc.

begin link dump:

• http://gridstylesheets.org/
• https://github.com/petehunt/react-gss
• https://github.com/slightlyoff/cassowary.js
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/verlet-constraint (uses WebGL)
• https://github.com/anvaka/ngraph.forcelayout