Some interesting shape values
Graphviz comes with a quite a list of shapes. The most interesting and useful, imho, are the following:
| Comments | Synonyms | |
box | rect, rectangle | |
circle | ||
cylinder | ||
doublecircle | ||
none | not available in version 2.38 | plaintext |
Mrecord | Creates a record based node | |
plain | Similar to shape=none but enforces width=0 height=0 margin=0. This guarantees that the size of a node is determined by its label. Not available in version 2.38 | |
plaintext | ||
point | ||
record | Creates a record based node | |
square | ||
underline |
The default value for
shape is ellipse. digraph SomeShapes {
edge [ style=invis ]
// 1
none [ shape=none ]
point [ shape=point ]
box [ shape=box ]
// 2
plain [ shape=plain ] // Does not work with dot version 2.38
ellipse // default
square [ shape=square ]
// 3
underline [ shape=underline ]
circle [ shape=circle ]
record [ shape=record label="{record|record based node}" ]
// 4
// ...
doublecircle [ shape=doublecircle ]
Mrecord [ shape=Mrecord label="{Mrecord|record based node}" ]
// 5
// ..
cylinder [ shape=cylinder ] // Does not work with dot version 2.38
none -> plain -> underline
point -> ellipse -> circle -> doublecircle -> cylinder
box -> square -> record -> Mrecord
}
Github repository about-Graphviz, path: /attributes/shape/interesting-shapes.dot
