Re: Tree plotting package?
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- Subject: [mg13348] Re: [mg13233] Tree plotting package?
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at fermi.phys.washington.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 02:50:03 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi Sean,
Have you looked into the builtin command TreeForm? There is also the
package DiscreteMath`Tree`, which has the commands TreePlot and
ExprPlot, which might be of some use. None of these produces the output
you requested, however.
Carl Woll
Dept of Physics
U of Washington
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Sean Cleary wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is an implementation of a Mathematica package
> to draw nice two-dimensional pictures of trees? That is, to go from a
> description of a tree as {x,{y,{z,a,b}}} or somesuch to a plot looking
> like
>
> x
> / \
> y z
> / \
> a b
>
> I was not able to find anything in MathSource. It won't be hard to
> write, it just seemed silly to work on if there is already something
> good available.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Sean Cleary Department of Mathematics Peters Building 359 CSU Fresno
> CA 93740 sean_cleary at csufresno.edu
> http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~cleary
>
>