I want to render a graph in similar layout to the following one:
I tried this:
digraph EDP
{
graph [colorscheme=paired12];
node [label="\N", shape=box, style="rounded,filled", colorscheme=paired12, color=8, fillcolor=7, width="1.2", fontname="Arial narrow", fontsize=12];
edge [colorscheme=paired12, color=8, fontsize=11, fontname="Arial narrow"];
src [label="Source"];
dst [label="Destination"];
filter [label="Filter"];
src -> dst [label="Encoding process"];
src -> filter [label="a"];
filter -> dst [label="b"];
src -> filter [dir=back, label=c];
filter -> dst [dir=back, label=d];
src -> dst [dir=back, label="Decoding process"];
}
which generated the following result :( Not very nice...
Can anyone show me the closest possible solution? (Probably it is not possible make exactly the same)
As close as I got before calling it a night:
digraph EDP
{
graph [colorscheme=paired12];
node [label="\N", shape=box, style="rounded,filled", colorscheme=paired12, color=8, fillcolor=7, width="1.2", fontname="Arial narrow", fontsize=12];
edge [colorscheme=paired12, color=8, fontsize=11, fontname="Arial narrow"];
src [width=3.5, label="Source"];
dst [width=3.5, label="Destination"];
filter [label="Filter"];
edge[constraint=false];
src -> dst [label="Encoding\nprocess"];
src -> filter [label="a"];
filter -> dst [label="b"];
dst -> filter [label="c"];
filter -> src [label="d"];
dst -> src [label="Decoding\nprocess"];
edge[style=invis, constraint=true];
src->filter->dst;
}
Save the graph as edp.gv
and create the image with
dot -Gsplines=none edp.gv | neato -n -Gsplines=ortho -Tpng -o edp.png
Result:
Some remarks:
constraint=false
on all edges, and add invisible edges to have the three nodes centereddir=back
, but I wasn't able to use this when rendering with -Gsplines=ortho