What algorithms are good for interactive/realtime graph-drawing?

Question

What algorithms are good for interactive/realtime graph-drawing for live data and direct-manipulation?

Failing that - what libraries do you use to draw graphs?

Answer 1

Not sure what you are after ...

sounds like maybe you are looking to do something similar to rrdtool?

Maybe there is some info at their site that will help:

http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/