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Figure 11-17: Using color to identify large cliques here wins points for
artistic impression, but it is difficult to see their boundaries of inclusion or
understand anything about them.
Community Groups with Convex Hulls
A convex hull draws a bounding shape around the edge of a set of nodes to
depict it as a group. Gephi includes basic convex hull functionality for those
who are up to mastering the finicky workflow.
The first step in generating hulls is to create groups. Back in the Partition
tab, underneath the list of colored cliques, you will find a Group button.
Before you click it, reset the color of the nodes in the view to gray. Groups
will pick up the color of the nodes, and it will be useful in this case to reserve
color for other purposes once the hulls are used to indicate cliques. Locate
 
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