Okay, if I want to have a nice drawing of a 5-cycle, it's built in. If I do
g = graphs.CycleGraph(5)
g.show()
it automatically draws it in a nice way. But, if I am looking at some random graph of order 11 that I want a nice picture of, for my dissertation, how am I supposed to get a nice picture? According to my question here, kcrisman says the graph editor is broken. That would have been a nice tool. My current strategy is to repeatedly have it show the graph and save it as a pdf until it gets into the format I want, i.e., run the following code over and over.
graph_plot = g.plot(vertex_colors={'white'})
graph_plot.show()
graph_plot.save('graph.pdf')
But, this doesn't always end up with the picture I really want. And, occasionally I want to do something like delete a vertex and draw the graph again, but now all of the sudden the plot behaves completely differently and it never looks anything like the previous drawing minus one vertex.
