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GVGEN(1) General Commands Manual GVGEN(1)

gvgen - generate graphs

gvgen [ -dv? ] [ -in ] [ -cn ] [ -Cx,y ] [ -g[f]x,y ] [ -G[f]x,y ] [ -hn ] [ -kn ] [ -bx,y ] [ -Bx,y ] [ -mn ] [ -Mx,y ] [ -pn ] [ -rx,y ] [ -Rx ] [ -sn ] [ -Sn ] [ -Sn,d ] [ -tn ] [ -td,n ] [ -Tx,y ] [ -Tx,y,u,v ] [ -wn ] [ -nprefix ] [ -Nname ] [ -ooutfile ]

gvgen generates a variety of simple, regularly-structured abstract graphs.

The following options are supported:

Generate a cycle with n vertices and edges.
Generate an x by y cylinder. This will have x*y vertices and 2*x*y - y edges.
Generate an x by y grid. If f is given, the grid is folded, with an edge attaching each pair of opposing corner vertices. This will have x*y vertices and 2*x*y - y - x edges if unfolded and 2*x*y - y - x + 2 edges if folded.
Generate an x by y partial grid. If f is given, the grid is folded, with an edge attaching each pair of opposing corner vertices. This will have x*y vertices.
Generate a hypercube of degree n. This will have 2^n vertices and n*2^(n-1) edges.
Generate a complete graph on n vertices with n*(n-1)/2 edges.
Generate a complete x by y bipartite graph. This will have x+y vertices and x*y edges.
Generate an x by y ball, i.e., an x by y cylinder with two "cap" nodes closing the ends. This will have x*y + 2 vertices and 2*x*y + y edges.
Generate a triangular mesh with n vertices on a side. This will have (n+1)*n/2 vertices and 3*(n-1)*n/2 edges.
Generate an x by y Moebius strip. This will have x*y vertices and 2*x*y - y edges.
Generate a path on n vertices. This will have n-1 edges.
Generate a random graph. The number of vertices will be the largest value of the form 2^n-1 less than or equal to x. Larger values of y increase the density of the graph.
Generate a random rooted tree on x vertices.
Generate a star on n vertices. This will have n-1 edges.
Generate a Sierpinski graph of order n. This will have 3*(3^(n-1) + 1)/2 vertices and 3^n edges.
Generate a d-dimensional Sierpinski graph of order n. At present, d must be 2 or 3. For d equal to 3, there will be 4*(4^(n-1) + 1)/2 vertices and 6 * 4^(n-1) edges.
Generate a binary tree of height n. This will have 2^n-1 vertices and 2^n-2 edges.
Generate a n-ary tree of height h.
Generate an x by y torus. This will have x*y vertices and 2*x*y edges. If u and v are given, they specify twists of that amount in the horizontal and vertical directions, respectively.
Generate a path on n vertices. This will have n-1 edges.
Generate n graphs of the requested type. At present, only available if the -R flag is used.
Normally, integers are used as node names. If prefix is specified, this will be prepended to the integer to create the name.
Use name as the name of the graph. By default, the graph is anonymous.
If specified, the generated graph is written into the file outfile. Otherwise, the graph is written to standard out.
Make the generated graph directed.
Verbose output.
-?
Print usage information.

gvgen exits with 0 on successful completion, and exits with 1 if given an ill-formed or incorrect flag, or if the specified output file could not be opened.

Emden R. Gansner <erg@research.att.com>

gc(1), acyclic(1), gvpr(1), gvcolor(1), ccomps(1), sccmap(1), tred(1), libgraph(3)

5 June 2012