Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Sigma.js
Sigma is a JavaScript library dedicated tographdrawing.Youcaninditon
www.sigmajs.org
. It makes it easy to publish networks on web pages and allows
developers to integrate network exploration in rich web applications. Sigma provides
a lot of built-in features that are optimized for modern browsers, such as Canvas and
WebGL renderers or mouse and touch support. This is supposed to make network
manipulation on web pages smooth and fast for the user.
Sigma provides a lot of different settings to make it easy to customize drawing and
interaction with networks. And you can also directly add your own functions to
your scripts to render nodes and edges the exact way you want. Sigma is a rendering
engine, and it is up to you to add all the interactivity you want. The public API makes
it possible to modify the data, move the camera, refresh the rendering, listen to events,
and many other things. It's probably for some of these reasons that the visualization
solution of Linkurio.us, which we will come back to later in this chapter, uses sigma.js
under the hood.
Sigma.js visualization of a graph
