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NAME
Soar::WM::Grapher - Utility for creating graphs of Soar's working memory
VERSION
version 0.02
SYNOPSIS
use Soar::WM;
use Soar::WM::Grapher qw(wm_graph);
my $wm = Soar::WM->new(file=>'path/to/wme/dump');
my $wme_id = 'S1'; #name of WME to begin graph from
my $depth = 2; #number of levels to traverse during graphing
my $g = wm_graph($wm, $wme_id, $depth, layout => 'twopi', ratio => 'compress', overlap=>'scale');
$g->as_svg('wm_graph.svg');
DESCRIPTION
This module can be used to create GraphViz representations of Soar
working memory.
NAME
Soar::WM - Perl extension for representing Soar working memory given a
WME dump file
METHODS
"wm_graph"
There are three required arguments: a Soar::WM object, the ID of the
working memory element to begin graphing from, and the depth to graph.
If the depth is 1, then only the specified element and its
attribute-value pairs will be graphed. 2 will also graph each of the
WMEs attached to the first node, and so on. The return value is a
GraphViz object. Any extra arguments passed to this function are passed
on to the GraphViz constructor; therefore, you can specify graphing
options such as layout, as seen in the synopsis above.
TODO
I understand that GraphViz is deprecated in favor of GraphViz2. However,
I cannot cleanly install GraphViz2 on my own computer (it has a rather
large dependency list). When I can cleanly install GraphViz2, I'll
switch to that module.
SEE ALSO
The "wm_graph" function accepts many optional arguments specified by the
GraphViz module.
AUTHOR
Nathan Glenn <garfieldnate@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Nathan Glenn.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.