http://ferlicot.fr/tags/visualization/Recent content in Visualization on Cyril Ferlicot-DelbecqueHugoen-USThu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://ferlicot.fr/posts/2026-11-05_telescope-bloc-connector/Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000http://ferlicot.fr/posts/2026-11-05_telescope-bloc-connector/<p><a href="https://github.com/TelescopeSt/Telescope">Telescope</a> is an engine to build visualizations. You do not draw anything with it: you describe <strong>nodes</strong>, <strong>groups</strong>, <strong>layouts</strong>, <strong>connections</strong>, <strong>styles</strong>, <strong>interactions</strong> and <strong>legends</strong>, and a <em>connector</em> renders this description with a graphical framework. The idea is to concentrate on the problem at hand instead of the nitty-gritty of a drawing library.</p> <p>The drawback of this design is that Telescope is useless without a connector. The one that exists for the web is the <a href="https://github.com/TelescopeSt/TelescopeCytoscape">CytoscapeJs connector</a>, and a Roassal connector was started but nobody had the time to maintain it. Nothing allowed to use Telescope directly in a Pharo window, with the graphical framework of Pharo itself.</p>