AnnealLayout Class

Implements a simulated annealing graph layout algorithm.

Namespace: MindFusion.Diagramming.Layout
Assembly: MindFusion.Diagramming.Silverlight

 Syntax

C#

public class AnnealLayout : Layout

Visual Basic

Public Class AnnealLayout
    Inherits Layout

 Remarks

Simulated Annealing is a general-purpose optimization method used to solve large-scale combinatorial problems by simulating the process of heating and cooling of metal to achieve freedom from defects. Finding a nice arrangement of a graph is a combinatorial problem that can be reduced to assigning costs to graph configurations and finding the minimum cost configuration. In that case, a cost is assigned to a graph configuration by evaluating different aesthetic criteria such as distance between nodes, length of links and the number of link crossings.

 Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
    MindFusion.Diagramming.Layout.Layout
        MindFusion.Diagramming.Layout.AnnealLayout