[linux-audio-dev] Modular Jack patch bay

[Steve Harris]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:37:32 -0500, Dave Robillard wrote:
> Screenshot:
> http://chat.carleton.ca/~drobilla/patchbay.png

Hey nice! antialiased too :)
 
> Any interface ideas (other than the color of the modules ;) ) are
> welcome... and if anyone has ideas for an elegant
> automatic-module-placement solution, I'd love to hear them.  Right now
> they're just randomly placed.  (Are there known algorithms in graph
> theory for this sort of thing?)

Yeah, there is, try citeseer or maybe the dot people have something?
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/refs.html

The problem you will find is hat most gaph algorithms dont care about
consitency of positioning between graph changes (eg. adding a new client),
but you could have an "organise" button to hit if it gets messy.

- Steve