[HELP]How to draw a circular, surrounded, star topology?

[inthesun]

How to draw a circular, surrounded, star topology?
Like this:

[Howie]

You can position nodes relative to each other, and you can do that with either regular pixel offsets or polar coordinates (angle+distance). So you need to do a little math to divide 360 into the number of child nodes, so that they are evenly spaced, and then do something like this:

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# this is the central node
NODE lax
    POSITION 200 200
    LABEL LAX

# this is a node 100 pixels away at 45 degrees
NODE AS1234
  LABEL AS1234
  POSITION lax 100r45

The nice thing with this is that you can move the central node and the others will just follow.

[inthesun]

You can position nodes relative to each other, and you can do that with either regular pixel offsets or polar coordinates (angle+distance). So you need to do a little math to divide 360 into the number of child nodes, so that they are evenly spaced, and then do something like this:

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# this is the central node
NODE lax
    POSITION 200 200
    LABEL LAX

# this is a node 100 pixels away at 45 degrees
NODE AS1234
  LABEL AS1234
  POSITION lax 100r45

The nice thing with this is that you can move the central node and the others will just follow.

Thank you very much!

[malgoe]

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# this is a node 100 pixels away at 45 degrees
  POSITION lax 100r45

A quick note to people like myself who read just that one comment in the configuration and not the whole thread, then spend half an hour creating a very nice post with example code, screenshots (spending a while regenerating the map with screenshot mode etc.) and a problem description of how things get very wrong:
The comment is wrong, 100 is the angle, 45 is the distance...

Also, Howie: Could you please put this in the reference section of the manual under "Node-specific Configuration Directives" -> "POSITION"? That would have saved me some head scratching

[Howie]

D'oh! Sorry!
Yes, I'll make sure it is updated (and correctly)

[msantana]

You can position nodes relative to each other, and you can do that with either regular pixel offsets or polar coordinates (angle+distance). So you need to do a little math to divide 360 into the number of child nodes, so that they are evenly spaced, and then do something like this:

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# this is the central node
NODE lax
    POSITION 200 200
    LABEL LAX

# this is a node 100 pixels away at 45 degrees
NODE AS1234
  LABEL AS1234
  POSITION lax 100r45

The nice thing with this is that you can move the central node and the others will just follow.

This is awesome!