Contributor - Xcos automatic layout

Description

A Xcos schema can become quickly messy. The idea is to provide some options to automatically update the layout of a Xcos schema . Previous GSOC editions provided Xcos with link & split-block autopositioning (available since 6.0.0), the work could be extended to all blocks.

Ideas

Two potential ideas:

• Use or implement the feature from jgraphx, the library on which Xcos is based

• Implement that into Xcos

Links

• http://www.jgraph.com/jgraph.html

• http://graphviz.org/

• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/msagl/

• http://www.mathworks.com/automotive/mac2010/pdfs/ImprovingModelingUsabilityAutomaticLayoutingforSimulinkPres.pdf