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Re: Re: changing style of vertices for ShowGraph

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  • Subject: [mg86349] Re: [mg86332] Re: [mg86270] changing style of vertices for ShowGraph
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2008 05:01:19 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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And how does one do the corresponding thing for edge labels as for 
vertex labels?  What form should the EdgeRenderingFunction take to do 
that?  And where is that documented?

Carl Woll wrote:
> Murray Eisenberg wrote:
> 
>> Yes, GraphPlot seems to permit making nice vertices (or edges), but 
>> then the labeling -- either with a Graph object from Combinatorica or 
>> just the kind of graph described by the GraphPlot reference page -- 
>> does not seem to admit vertex labels or edge labels, at least so far 
>> as I can see.  For example, neither of the following displays either 
>> vertex labels or edge labels:
>>
>>
>> GraphPlot[Cycle[3], Method -> Automatic, VertexLabeling -> True,
>>  EdgeLabeling -> True, EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Black, Line[#1]} &),
>>   VertexRenderingFunction -> ({EdgeForm[{Thickness[0.005], Red}],
>>      Yellow, Disk[#1, 0.04]} &)]
>>
>> GraphPlot[{{v1 -> v2, "a"}, {v2 -> v3, "b"}, {v3 -> v1, "c"}},
>>  Method -> Automatic, VertexLabeling -> True, EdgeLabeling -> True,
>>  EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Black, Line[#1]} &),
>>  VertexRenderingFunction -> ({EdgeForm[{Thickness[0.005], Red}],
>>      Yellow, Disk[#1, 0.04]} &)]
>>
>> On the other hand, if I remove he VertexRenderingFunction option, I do 
>> see vertex labels on the default (yellow boxes) vertex shapes:
>>  
>>
>  From the help for VertexLabeling:
> 
> "Any explicit setting for VertexRenderingFunction overrides the setting 
> for VertexLabeling."
> 
> Similarly for EdgeLabeling.
> 
> If you want labels when using VertexRenderingFunction, you need to put 
> them in explicitly in the VertexRenderingFunction rhs. The first example 
> in the VertexRenderingFunction function page does this.
> 
> If you want to recreate the default labeling inside 
> VertexRenderingFunction, the following may help:
> 
> VertexRenderingFunction -> (Text[
>      Framed[#2, {Background -> RGBColor[1, 1, .8], FrameStyle -> 
> RGBColor[.94, .85, .36], FrameMargins -> Automatic}], #] &)]
> 
> Carl Woll
> Wolfram Research
> 
>>  GraphPlot[{v1 -> v2, "a"}, {v2 -> v3, "b"}, {v3 -> v1, "c"}},
>>   Method -> Automatic, VertexLabeling -> True,
>>    EdgeLabeling -> True, EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Black, Line[#1]} &)]
>>
>> GraphPlot[Cycle[3], Method -> Automatic, VertexLabeling -> True,
>>  EdgeLabeling -> True, EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Black, Line[#1]} &)]
>>
>> Of course this now defeats the purpose of using GraphPlot so as to get 
>> exactly the kind of vertex shapes that VertexRenderingFunction, above, 
>> provides.
>>
>> Similarly with EdgeRenderingFunction.
>>
>> The kernel function GraphPlot doesn't seem to mesh very well with 
>> Combinatorica's graph functions.  This all still seems only "half-baked".
>>
>>
>> J. McKenzie Alexander wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Take a look at GraphPlot, the graph rendering function that is built 
>>> into the Mathematica kernel.  I switched from using ShowGraph to 
>>> GraphPlot after realising that it was (a) faster and (b) easier to 
>>> customise.  Here's what you want:
>>>
>>> GraphPlot[
>>> Cycle[3],
>>> Method -> None,
>>> EdgeRenderingFunction -> ({Black, Line[#1]} &),
>>> VertexRenderingFunction -> ({EdgeForm[{Thickness[0.005], Red}], Yellow,
>>>     Disk[#1, 0.04]} &)
>>> ]
>>>
>>> You need to specify Method->None, otherwise GraphPlot will override 
>>> the specified positions of the vertices in the graph and use its own 
>>> default vertex positioning algorithm.
>>>
>>> VertexRenderingFunction is what you need to define in order to 
>>> customise the appearance of the vertices.
>>>
>>> I provided a definition of EdgeRenderingFunction just so that the 
>>> edges are rendered in the same way as ShowGraph.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> J. McKenzie Alexander
>>> Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
>>> London School of Economics and Political Science
>>> Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 Mar 2008, at 07:29, Murray Eisenberg wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> With Mathematica 6, I can change the default style (medium black disk)
>>>> for rendering the vertices of a Combinatorica Graph like this:
>>>>
>>>>  Needs["Combinatorica`"]
>>>>
>>>>  g = Cycle[3];
>>>>  ShowGraph[g, VertexStyle -> Disk[Large], VertexColor -> Red]
>>>>
>>>> But how can I, for example, change the vertex style so it is, say, a
>>>> large yellow disk with a thick red boundary?  Or even just change it to
>>>> be a circle?  I tried "obvious" things like the following, but they
>>>> cause errors:
>>>>
>>>>  ShowGraph[g, VertexStyle -> Graphics[Circle[], ImageSize -> 20]]
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
>>>> Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
>>>> Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
>>>> University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
>>>> 710 North Pleasant Street            fax   413 545-1801
>>>> Amherst, MA 01003-9305
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>>   
>>
>>  
>>
> 

-- 
Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
Mathematics & Statistics Dept.
Lederle Graduate Research Tower      phone 413 549-1020 (H)
University of Massachusetts                413 545-2859 (W)
710 North Pleasant Street            fax   413 545-1801
Amherst, MA 01003-9305


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