R: Graph layout with vertices on the surface of a sphere

layout_on_sphere {igraph} | R Documentation

## Graph layout with vertices on the surface of a sphere

### Description

Place vertices on a sphere, approximately uniformly, in the order of their vertex ids.

### Usage

    layout_on_sphere(graph)

    on_sphere(...)

### Arguments

`graph` | The input graph.
`...` | Passed to `layout_on_sphere`.

### Details

`layout_on_sphere` places the vertices (approximately) uniformly on the surface of a sphere, this is thus a 3d layout. It is not clear however what “uniformly on a sphere” means.

If you want to order the vertices differently, then permute them using the `permute` function.

### Value

A numeric matrix with three columns, and one row for each vertex.

### Author(s)

Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com

### See Also

Other graph layouts: `add_layout_()`, `component_wise()`, `layout_as_bipartite()`, `layout_as_star()`, `layout_as_tree()`, `layout_in_circle()`, `layout_nicely()`, `layout_on_grid()`, `layout_randomly()`, `layout_with_dh()`, `layout_with_fr()`, `layout_with_gem()`, `layout_with_graphopt()`, `layout_with_kk()`, `layout_with_lgl()`, `layout_with_mds()`, `layout_with_sugiyama()`, `layout_()`, `merge_coords()`, `norm_coords()`, `normalize()`

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