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hankbond 6 hours ago [-]
I have a bunch of bad layouts so I'll give it a shot, but there's no way my org would pay 120 a year per seat for this. I don't think for any price it would get through procurement to be honest. Also we mostly render mermaid in confluence documents with a macro that renders it from the source in the document. Not sure how that would relate to this pricing/auth model.
Not trying to throw any shade or dissuade you from trying to earn a living, just providing feedback.
WalterGR 7 hours ago [-]
Graph layout is a very interesting, very hard problem.
There's even a yearly competition - started in 1994 - whose results are announced at the yearly Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.
It's not a subject I'm versed in, but can you talk more about your solution? Do you use a larger constraint solver or is it hand-coded?
n.b. It's an independent conference, not under the auspices of e.g. IEEE or ACM.
sbarre 7 hours ago [-]
FYI for any new or casual Mermaid users, it comes with a built-in alternate layout called `elk` that I find does a much cleaner job on complex flowcharts.
Not trying to throw any shade or dissuade you from trying to earn a living, just providing feedback.
There's even a yearly competition - started in 1994 - whose results are announced at the yearly Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.
It's not a subject I'm versed in, but can you talk more about your solution? Do you use a larger constraint solver or is it hand-coded?
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Competition: https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/
The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, to be held in Ontario, Canada: https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2026/
n.b. It's an independent conference, not under the auspices of e.g. IEEE or ACM.
See docs here: https://mermaid.ai/open-source/config/layouts.html
You can try it with Line9's first chart: https://mermaid.ai/live/edit#pako:eNpVVEtv2zAM_iuCTilgB1mbxq...
While it's nice and compact, it actually is rougher to grep.
https://mermaid.ai/live/edit#pako:eNplUlFPwjAQ_ivNPW9EkMHWB4...
[0]: https://typst.app/universe/package/merman/
It's an amazing tool, but I wish it were open source.
https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-live-editor https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
OP's product is not open source btw
Just vibe code a user interface to it.