Update: This is not the best solution I have come up with, but I’ve left it because there are so many comments relating to it. You have a set of events (birth/death), parental state (no descendants, parent, grandparent, etc) and life state (alive, dead). I would store my data in structures with the following fields: … Read more
Try the following: digraph simpsons { subgraph Generation0 { rank = same Abraham [shape = box, color = blue] Mona [shape = box, color = pink] AbrahamAndMona [shape = point] Abraham -> AbrahamAndMona [dir = none] AbrahamAndMona -> Mona [dir = none] Clancy [shape = box, color = blue] Jackeline [shape = box, color = … Read more
Although an answer has been posted (and accepted), I thought there is no harm in posting what I worked upon this problem last night. I approached this problem more from a novice point of view rather than working out with existing algorithms of graph/tree traversal. My first attempt is rendering this by levels from the … Read more
My approach is as under: Lets take the example you have illustrated in the attached figure: Jenny Of Oldstones is also a the child of Aegon V but the difference between this child and other children of Aegon V is that in this case I am not drawing the link between it. This is done … Read more
It seems you (and/or your company) have a fundamental misunderstanding of what a family tree is supposed to be. Let me clarify, I also work for a company that has (as one of its products) a family tree in its portfolio, and we have been struggling with similar problems. The problem, in our case, and … Read more