OrganicEdgeRouter produces extreme bends
TroubleshootingSummary
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Description
For OrganicEdgeRouter to function properly it has to be guaranteed that nodes are at least approximately twice as far away from each other as the minimal edge distance, which has been set for this algorithm. If this is not the case this might lead to very long edges and extreme bends.
To achieve the right behavior, one can prepend a layout stage which is provided by OrganicEdgeRouter's method createNodeEnlargementStage() in combination with a stage that removes node overlaps as the core of this layouter.
The following code snippet shows how to prepend these stages to the router:
OrganicEdgeRouter router = new OrganicEdgeRouter();
CompositeLayoutStage cls = new CompositeLayoutStage();
cls.appendStage(router.createNodeEnlargementStage());
cls.appendStage(new BendConverter());
cls.appendStage(new RemoveOverlapsLayoutStage(0));
router.setCoreLayouter(cls);
//router.doLayout(myGraph);