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I was wondering if there was a way to change the node shapes from circle (or ellipse) to say rectangle, triangle, hexagon, etc.

Of course,

Open the visualisation options panel like this one, then open Nodes, and choose the default shape: disk 2d, sphere 3d, or rectangle. More shapes could be added with the help of the community.

Thanks. But what I meant was having different shapes in the same network. For instance, if the network has microRNA and genes or disease and genes, the ability to used different shapes for different categories/classes of nodes would make graph more intuitive. I tried using the GML file exported from Cytoscape (with different shapes for the nodes) but when it is opened in Gephi the colors are retained but the shapes are lost (i.e., all the nodes are of same default shape).

Yes this is a limitation of our current design and may be fixed in a future release. I though it was in the roadmap, as many agreed this would be a very good improvement, but it wasn't so I updated the page.

It is available now ?
Or still waiting for future release ?

Hi, I am also interested in displaying nodes in the same graph with different shapes. I have found this new Visualization API but I didn't see the set shape option. Does the current release of Gephi support this feature?

Thanks!
Mike

Hi, this API is currently under active development.

Hi,

Is there a way to have patterned nodes or edges, i.e. a dashed line or striped node?

For the node shapes can we have a variety of shapes for one graph?

Thanks for your help.

admin wrote:Of course,

Open the visualisation options panel like this one, then open Nodes, and choose the default shape: disk 2d, sphere 3d, or rectangle. More shapes could be added with the help of the community.

Hi I have followed the steps above, and in the overview tab I have rectangular nodes (yay!). But when I go to the preview tab and refresh the nodes remain circular.... Please help!

I am a pretty new user and have Gephi 0.8.1 beta installed.

Thanks!

Hi,
Different node shapes are not implemented in preview yet. But it is not too difficult and will be definitely done in the future.
In fact, there is a simple example implementation of square shaped nodes here https://github.com/gephi/gephi-plugins-bootcamp

Eduardo