Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.Discussing with naught101 we thought about hiding the nodes for a while.
$(.nodes).hide();
run the physics
$(.nodes).hide();
Could be a quick win.
The animation should maybe stop after a while too?
Comments
Comment #1
naught101 commentedI think that's a possibility.
I wonder if it'd be worth measureing the largest distance between frames/iterations, and using that as a threshold for animation? eg. iterated without animation, until largest distance change is <10px, then animate, then stop physics after largest distance change is <2px.
Perhaps the thresholds could be configurable? then you could set the upper and lower threshold equal, to prevent animation at all..
Comment #2
clemens.tolboomDistance is no the right variable as for say two nodes never stop animating.
We can use the speed of all nodes as a threshold.
Or the sum of all forces.
So this issue to also give some data indicator
- total kinetic energy
- total potential energy
- max speed
- max force
?
Comment #3
naught101 commentedof course, max force is best, as it is already calculated anyway...
Comment #4
clemens.tolboomComment #5
clemens.tolboomThe animation should stop one moment in time. For this to happen I need to rewrite the engine to implement ease-in/out functions.
See also #1477658: Disable animation by default.
Comment #6
marcoka commentedall current graphs will be calculated on load, meaning the graph is looking a bit different all the time. i think thats caused by the algorithm. i am not so familiar with graph theory. but would it somehow possible to save the order a user does manually? i mean one can drag and drop the nodes around but the positions do not get saved. i am not sure if this is even possible, so just brainstorming.
Comment #7
clemens.tolboomThis could be possible if and when #1143686: Render a static graph lands.
Comment #8
clemens.tolboom