Other than seeing a number of Graphviz diagrams, I don’t know anything about Graphviz. All the ones I’ve seen are implication or flow diagrams. Can it produce subset diagrams? In case that’s not clear, I mean instead of showing A flows to, leads to, or impies B, can Graphviz display A inside B us…

Short answer: probably not. Better answer: maybe, depending on exactly what you are wanting to see and how many different graphs you might produce. Would you share an example or two of what you want to see? Hand drawn would be fine.

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Thanks, Steve for your interest in my question. The example attached at the java venn diagram link you sent is closest to what I had in mind. Closer still would be to imagine either of the two halves of the image with an optional V in the intersection of X and Z and an optional XZ label for the un…

Graphviz won’t do the placement for a diagram like WXYZ above, but it can do the drawing. So, you’d need to provide the program (or eyeballs) to set the placement (positioning). I did this by eyeball in about 30 minutes (graph paper would have helped): graph V { node [shape=circle fontsize=12] …

Yeah, we did not work on this problem. It’s a neat problem. I’ve seen several research papers on this topic. I’m not convinced anything can scale beyond 8 or 10 sets. There is some empirical evidence for this. This doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be attempted, but it’s good to understand the limitations. …

You’re right that the idea is limited in the form I first suggested. Depending on the arrangement the limitation might be less than 8 or 10. But that limitation is not as limiting as it may seem at first. You can graphically pull a section of a set. For example: [image]

Yet, we must consider the general case. https://ieeevis.b-cdn.net/vis_2021/pdfs/v-full-1477.pdf Here’s a typical example of a more complex diagram. This was created by a certain Sara Fisher, published on “pinterest”. Without following the details closely, I’m not sure it’s an area-proportional ve…

The PDF diagram of adjectives is an impressive illustration of set intersections. I saw this on pinterest web site. It’s a good example of intersections, unions, subsets and supersets. [image]

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steveroush April 12, 2022, 12:17pm 3

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