Category: Higraph

Posts relating to the semantics and development of a tool to graphically edit Higraphs.

A screenshot of a graph drawing application, with text on the left, and the graph (nodes & edges) drawn on the right 0

V 0.3.0 … almost

Version 020 was blobs. David Harel called nodes-as-sets “blobs”. They make graphs very expressive, particularly when you are trying to understand or model a complex topic. You can make high level general associations alongside...

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qtPyGraphEdit V0.0.0-alpha is out.

After about 150+ hours of wrestling with Qt, I have a “Minimum Viable Product” of a GUI graph editor. It can be found on github It surprises me that in 2025, the bulk of...

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Developing a Higraph Editor

In the mid 1990s I was given a copy of David Harel’s paper “On Visual Formalisms“, where he described an extension to graph theory where nodes become sets – or ‘blobs’ as he called them,...