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Force-directed relaxation

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Force-directed relaxation simulates physical forces on connected nodes, adjusting their positions iteratively to minimize energy, balancing attractive and repulsive forces to reveal an optimal topology. See Force-directed graph drawing on Wikipedia

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Properties

Property Description
Settings
Spring Constant Controls the “springness” of the edges.
Keep this value very small
Electrostatic Controls the “attractiveness” of the vtx.
Keep this value very large

The default settings are not really meant to be changed – editing them quickly leads to artifacts and anomalies.