[CUWiN-Dev] Route Vis (visual node app)...

[Seth Price]

This is what I sent Andrew:

I remembered another reason why it will be difficult to pick up the  
package from where I left off: I couldn't figure out how to compile  
the config parsing files correctly, so I kind of did a hack job on  
them. I'm not sure how much problem you will have getting them to  
compile on your machine, but it isn't anything that a little Google  
won't fix. (You may also want to look at the original files.)

I would suggest making good use of diff to figure out what has been  
changes against the CVS files. If you have any questions, feel free  
to ask. I left a few images in the archive that I'm sending so you  
can see what the output looks like in the current state. They all  
start in the middle and begin to separate themselves out. After a few  
iterations, the green links *should* start getting shorter and the  
red links longer. (With a bit more tweaking...)

First, though, make sure that the program lays out an appropriate  
test mesh. I've spent quite a bit of time trying to tweak things,  
only to discover that the mesh didn't look "right".

You could try adding generated metrics like signal strength in  
addition to ETX. If we find that things work conclusively better with  
those metrics, Dave mentioned that he could give us access to them in  
the program.

If you get things working on the metric end, I'm also interested in  
playing with a genetic algorithm to lay out the grid. I would guess  
that a genetic algorithm would be most effective when laying out  
thousands of nodes, so we don't need to worry about it now, though.

The files are at:
http://pricepages.org/temp/routeviz.zip

~Seth



On Feb 7, 2006, at 6:53 AM, daniel wrote:

> I am fairly certain both Andrew and I forgot to ask for a copy of your
> route vis application (I forgot the actual name).  We would still very
> much like to take a look at that app if you could drop us a way to get
> to it.
> --
> Daniel
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