Rust fa2 crate
The fa2 crate provide a Rust implementation of the
ForceAtlas2 graph layout
algorithm.
Jacomy M, Venturini T, Heymann S, Bastian M (2014) ForceAtlas2, a Continuous Graph Layout Algorithm for Handy Network Visualization Designed for the Gephi Software. PLoS ONE 9(6): e98679. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098679
This implementation is generic over its float precision so you can run it with f32
or f64.
Running the algorithm
// First you need to populate the graph data on which the algorithm will run:
let mut data = new;
// Then you need to instantiate settings
let settings = default;
// Then you can build the layout runner
let layout = settings.build;
// Running a fixed number of iterations
layout.run;
// Retrieving positions
layout.data.positions
For a command line tool able to run this implementation of the algorithm and/or
to read a real-life example, check out the run
example of this crate.