Bigger rules, bigger screens

In current project where we are working on a vehicle configurator based on an inference (rule) engine, a client known by the affectionate name of OGO shared an particular SVG document wiht me. Using the swiss army chainsaw of structure visualization -graphviz- he created a diagram showings the engine’s traversal through the solution space. Think: ‘I tried this then I tried that, which didn’t work either, went back two steps tried this other thing..’ – resulting in a pretty impressive tree.

So impressive that I immediatly wanted a huge printout for show-off purposes.

In order to be able to split the diagram into multiple pieces I made the navice mistake to convert it to a bitmap. Which was 528452 x 2900 pixels at a moderate resolution of 90 dpi.

Gist: I need a bigger screen. A much bigger screen. I estimate that  a 594″  will do.

Let’s see what WWDC can do for me tonoght.