Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout VS nodezator

From my POV you don't need to try to find a special control for family tree but the idea is to use most common library like this. https://github.com/microsoft/automatic-graph-layout Then add you own logic to control the graph.

The problem here is that a fundamental question has not been answered, and as far as I can tell, has not been addressed by any of these visual environments:

What does an algorithm look like?

Herman Hesse alluded to this in his novel _The Glass Bead Game_, but despite decades of discussion and work, no one has made a convincing pysical representation of that system.

I love the concept, and have made some moderately complex attempts, e.g.,:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/community/projects/1430644

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

it always devolves to screen size being out-paced by problem complexity --- one gets something of an inkling of this at:

https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/

Alternately, one can just break a project down into modules, but then the top-level view becomes the wall of text representation (albeit w/ nice lines or captured into pretty boxes) which one is ostensibly trying to escape.

I'd love to see someone succeed in this, and I've been using:

https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

quite a bit, and put a bit of money towards:

http://nodezator.com/

https://nodezator.com (app website, work in progress)

Some of the code (after being refactored/improved) and many of the lessons I gained from my experience developing this prototype can be seen in my most recent and more mature app, nodezator, which uses pygame as well.

I prefer this sort of programming system.

Mostly these days I do 3D modeling, so I'm using a Blockly version of OpenSCAD:

https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/

but I'd really like to see a nice, stand-alone desktop development environment like to Scratch which isn't encumbered by a sandbox and which is able to write and append to local files and which is easily installed and which runs reliably.

Crashed and burned on pyFlow, Ryven, GraphSCAD, and a bunch of others.

Currently hoping that Nodezator (a node programming system based on pygame) will pan out --- it just needs branches and loops for my purposes:

http://nodezator.com

In the meanwhile, I'm copying OpenSCAD code out of BlockSCAD and pasting it into RapCAD:

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/g-code-preview-using-opensc...

Nodezator is out since last weekend! Install instructions on https://github.com/KennedyRichard/nodezator and manual on https://manual.nodezator.com Nodes from matplotlib demonstration available on https://github.com/KennedyRichard/matplotlib_example_node_pack Don't forget to install matplotlib as well to load the nodes properly.

I'd like to see one accepted and installed by default and easily used and nicely integrated --- perhaps some other tool should be tried --- I've been working w/ Nodezator: http://nodezator.com/ and it has the advantage of making quite straight-forward Python3 code.

Installations instructions and download on this github link.

If you have ideas/suggestions/concerns/constructive criticism you can share your thoughs on https://github.com/KennedyRichard/nodezator/discussions