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Eclipse Layout Kernel™

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Visual languages are popular for visualizing concepts and systems. However, just being graphical in nature does not automatically make a diagram easy to understand. Its usefulness much rather depends on the placement of its elements, that is: on its layout. Getting the layout right is labour intensive and time consuming and can be made a lot easier by making algorithms do the work. The Eclipse Layout Kernel™ (ELK) provides such layout algorithms, as well as an infrastructure to connect them to diagram editors.

ELK consists of two parts:

  • The kernel provides the basic infrastructure that connects editors with layout algorithms. Part of that is the ElkGraph, a data structure used to pass diagrams to the layout algorithms and receive the layout information computed by the algorithms.
  • The actual layout algorithms. Different layout algorithms specialize in different kinds of diagrams and layout problems.

To use ELK, a developer usually only has to provide a transformation that produces an ElkGraph and applies the computed layout results back to his editor.

Licenses: 
Eclipse Public License 2.0
Latest Releases: 

From October 5th, 2017 to April 15th, 2022

NameDateReview
0.8.02022-04-15
0.7.12020-12-20
0.7.02020-07-30
0.6.12020-03-04
0.6.02019-12-18
0.5.02019-03-08
0.4.12018-08-03
0.4.02018-06-09
0.2.32018-03-08
0.3.02017-10-05
Active Member Companies: 
Member companies supporting this project over the last three months.
Contribution Activity: 
Commits on this project (last 12 months).
Contributors: 
Sören Domrös
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