I'm working on a project that involves creating a minimum spanning tree from a larger graph. However, I would like to visualize the data after i've created it.

GraphViz seems ideal for the graphic however it doesn't have the mst functions built in. I basically create the graph with the Graph::Undirected module and find the mst. But now I was wondering if you guys knew an easy way to convert my finished mst graph to a GraphViz object. I suppose Graph::Easy would also work, however it doesn't appear that you can set the edge weights in Graph::Easy, which is very important to me.

I could of course just loop through the original graph and add each edge to the new object, but I figured I'd ask before re-inventing the wheel. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

UPDATE: Hrm, so I guess there is Graph::Convert which will get it to Graph::Easy, however that's not working as I'm losing the weights...

In reply to Visualizing Graphical Data by jpearl

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