Graph plotting becomes slow and unresponsive for large graphs

[pesho-ivanov]

Even a single very famous paper leads to hundreds of nodes to be plotted as citing it. This adds a huge overhead (up to Firefox suggesting closing the page). One of the problems is the slow animation; another is the unresponsiveness once it is drawn.

The only solution to both problems that I imagine is defaulting to computing a static layout (i.e. no animation) after certain number of nodes. This will require not refreshing it for each added node (as it is currently implemented).

[barney-walker]

Temp fix is to stop displaying graph at a maximum node size or at least give ask for user confirmation before plotting with a warning that it may crash the browser.

[no-identd]

See also #13 (comment)

[mahtaao]

Hi,
Is there any updates on this? I'm gonna suggest getting rid of animation effects (nods wiggling with pointer and so on) might help.