An interactive constraint-based system for drawing graphs
Kathy Ryall, Joe Marks, Stuart M. Shieber · 1997
The GLIDE system is an interactive constraint-based editor for drawing small-and medium-sized graphs (50 nodes or fewer) that organizes the interaction in a more collaborative manner than in previous systems.Its distinguishing features are a vocabulary of specialized constraints for graph drawing, and a simple constraintsatisfaction mechanism that allows the user to manipulate the drawing while the constraints are active.These features result in a graph-drawing editor that is superior in many ways to those based on more general and powerful constraint-satisfaction methods.