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Network plans, nested dependencies, or binary trees – with Graphviz, you can visualize complex relationships in a simple way.
Visualizing complex structures using Graphviz
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The Graphviz [1] program has long been well-established in the open source landscape (see the "Out of Bell Labs" box). In many cases, this tool does its job unnoticed in the background, for example, automatically generating images on a web server from a database via a script.
The AsciiDoc [3] markup language has the ability to embed Graphviz data directly. The compiler automatically interprets the code sections into corresponding graphs.
Plugins are available for Doxygen [4] and many wiki platforms. Graphviz also has a presence in Puppet [5], and it is used for creating resource graphs.
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