I have no alternative to your usage of dir, but i can make it slightly shorter, if you want horizontal alignment, use the rankdir property of graph, to force direction from left to right. digraph { rankdir=LR; a->b; c->a [dir=”back”]; }
The solution to this problem lies in the NetworkX version 1.8 which is yet to be released, but is available via git hub. Do the following to increase the distance between nodes: pos = nx.spring_layout(G, k=0.15, iterations=20) # k controls the distance between the nodes and varies between 0 and 1 # iterations is the … Read more
In my experience using graphviz to render graphs of that size (~ 700 nodes), minimal trial-and-error adjustment to this combination of attribute settings–some structural, some purely aesthetic–for all three objects (graph, nodes, and edges) should do what you want: reduce the minimum separation between nodes, via ‘nodesep’; e.g., nodes[nodesep=0.75]; this will make your graph being … Read more