loredanacirstea
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4 years ago Hi @srdjan , thank you for continuing the conversation.
About:
high level snapshot of the pipeline functionality, but then allow a drill-down to more detailed view of the nodes/subgroups
At some point we were working on a PoC where you could focus on a node -> the node increased in size and the other nodes would get smaller. And the idea was that a node representing a subgraph would show the subgraph inside the node rectangle - similar to https://youtu.be/5Ec5yRp0SgM?t=252 (here we were showing the function source). But we postponed this effort for a while.
contracts would be boxes, at the top level, not lines and would show simple directed connections vs full, per parameter view in drill down mode...
Could you do a simple drawing of the idea? I don't quite understand.
I agree that the pipecanvas library needs improvement - I don't yet have a full picture of how exactly. But I am in a better position now, that I've introduced nested graphs.
srdjan
... continuing from the twitter thread: https://twitter.com/lorecirstea/status/1242547389275275264
Issue: current pipeline visual representation gets very unwieldy, hard to follow, as it grows.
This issue is for discussing possible solutions...
My initial suggestion would be to investigate a multilayer approach, where top level layer could offer high level data flow (or state machine?) view that gives a high level snapshot of the pipeline functionality, but then allow a drill-down to more detailed view of the nodes/subgroups.
contracts would be boxes, at the top level, not lines and would show simple directed connections vs full, per parameter view in drill down mode...
Anyway, this is just a suggestion and call for action, since once used for a while things become familiar and is not easy to see how it appears to the newcomers... As I said in the twitter thread. above, GREAT WORK! Congrats on progress made.