dijkstra.1   [plain text]


.TH NOP 1 "21 March 2001"
.SH NAME
dijkstra \- single-source distance filter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dijkstra
[ 
.I sourcenode file
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B dijkstra
reads a stream of graphs and for each computes the distance of every
node from
.I sourcenode.
Edge length is given in the 
.I len
attribute, and the default is 1.  The 
.I dist
attribute of every node is set to its distance from
.I sourcenode.
The global variable
.I maxdist
is set to the maximum 
.I dist
of all nodes in the graph.
Any number of
.I sourcenode file
pairs may be given.
.P
In a typical application,
.I dist
and 
.I maxdist
can drive a downstream calculation of color or some other attribute.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
gvpr(1), gvcolor(1), libgraph(3)