graphviz, omnigraffle and the dot-language

Graphviz is open source graph visualization software. Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.

Documentation

• Official documenation
• O'Reilly article
• Paper about the dot language
• Graph theory
• Node, Edge and Graph Attributes

OmniGraffle

It is a less known feature of OmniGraffle that it can process dot-files. It uses the graphviz-engine and combines it with a excellent user interface.

• http://paco.to/2004/omnigraffle-and-graphviz

Some tricks

• howto render LargeDotFiles