Graph-Drawing / TSP-Route-Drawing in C++ with "known" coordinates: How? Which Library/Tool? - c++
i'm developing some kind of heuristics for a variation of the vehicle-routing-problem in C++.
After generating a solution, i want to plot this solution. The solution is a composite of various tours, all starting and ending at a common depot.
Therefore i have a vertex-set with all the coordinates and edges defined by two vertex-id's each. Furthermore i have all the distances between vertex-pairs of course.
It would be helpful to plot this in an extra-window opening in my program, but writing a plot to a graphics-file should be okay too.
What is an easy way to plot this? How would you tackle this?
First i tried to look for common graph-visualization packages (graphviz, tulip, networkx (python)), but i realized that all of them are specialized at graph-layouting (when there are no coordinates). Correct me when i'm wrong.
I don't know if it is possible to tell these packages that i already have the coordinates, helping the layouting-algorithms.
Next thing i tried is the CGAL library with geomview output -> no luck until now -> ubuntu crashes geomview.
One more question: Is it a better idea to use some non-layouting 2d-plot-libraries risking a plot, which isn't really good to view at (is there more to do than scaling?) or to use some layout-algorithm-based-libraries (e.g. graphviz, tulip, networkx), feed them with the distances between the vertices and hope the layouting-algorithms are keeping the distances while plotting in a good-to-view-at way?
If non-layouting-plotting is the way to do it: which library do you recommend?
If layout-based-plotting is the way to do it: how can i make use of the distances/coordinates in these libraries? And which library do you recommend?
Thanks for all your input!
Sascha
EDIT: I completed a prototype implementation using the PLplot library (http://plplot.sourceforge.net/). The results are nice and should be enough for the moment. I discovered and chosed this library because a related project (VRPH Software Package / Groer) used this plot and the source code was distributed. So the implementation was done in a short amount of time. The API is in my opinion bit awkward and low-level. Maybe there are some more modern (maybe not a c-based library) libraries out there? MathGL? Dislin? Maybe i will try them too.
The nice thing about drawing multiple tours in a vehicle routing problem is that "not so bad" algorithms tend to discover nice non-overlapping and divergent tours which is really good for the eye ;-)
It is not quite clear what you are trying to archive, but if I understand your question correctly, then you could do it using OpenGL. Having vertex coordinates, it should be fairly easy.
You can use Gnuplot with a input text file that contains your solution.
It is convenient to draw the points (vertex) then lines (agents paths) than link them.
To make the plot script easy, you can have a separate file for each vehicle, if the number
of vehicles is known.
check out:
http://www.cleveralgorithms.com/nature-inspired/advanced/visualizing_algorithms.html
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