Label adjustment

[arikan]

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Relatively complex graphs have the issue of labels overlapping and making certain areas unreadable.

A labelAdjust() function would be useful, like in Gephi. I guess the way to implement it is get the SVG text x, y, width, height and for each node check if its label overlaps, if true, adjust the node's position.

[anvaka]

Agreed, that should be part of the library. I'm thinking this could be handled on a quad tree level, but it would require a major rewrite. Currently quad tree treats each node as a geometrical point (without size)

[mpashkovskiy]

BTW is it posible to discard nodes overlaping?

[anvaka]

@mpashkovskiy unfortunately - no. Not with current force directed algorithm. I know ForceAtlas2 supports that, but it's not part of the library.

[mpashkovskiy]

@anvaka thanks Andrei will try sigma.js