{"id":5615,"date":"2019-09-27T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2019-09-27T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:53:19","slug":"yed-color-gradient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5615","title":{"rendered":"yEd Color Gradient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to buy Visio &#8212; for one thing, I&#8217;m using it for <em>work<\/em>, and I don&#8217;t want to buy <em>anything<\/em> for work. But I don&#8217;t use Visio frequently enough to warrant paying for a license. I tried a few open source iterations with no success (OpenOffice Draw gave me the exact feeling I remember when trying to use the spreadsheet product &#8212; halfway there, but missing a LOT of features that are important to me). I happened across a free-but-not-open-source program called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yworks.com\/products\/yed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">yEd<\/a>. It&#8217;s got a basic shape gallery, I can draw lines between shapes, I can add labels to my lines and shapes. Perfect!<\/p>\n<p>Their sample diagram, though, had a cool gradient effect. Not something I&#8217;m apt to use on a serious diagram &#8230; but I wanted to know how to achieve the same look. A lot of clicking later:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"entry-content\">Select two nodes where the gradient starts. Select &#8220;Tools&#8221; =&gt; &#8220;Colorize Graph&#8221;. On the &#8220;General&#8221; tab, set &#8220;Highlight Feature&#8221; to &#8220;Graph Distance&#8221;. On the &#8220;Graph Distance&#8221; tab, ensure &#8220;Rainbow Interpolation&#8221; is unchecked. Pick your starting color, ending color, and a max distance (I used 250). Apply and you&#8217;ll have a vertical gradient across your document.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to buy Visio &#8212; for one thing, I&#8217;m using it for work, and I don&#8217;t want to buy anything for work. But I don&#8217;t use Visio frequently enough to warrant paying for a license. I tried a few open source iterations with no success (OpenOffice Draw gave me the exact feeling I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[824],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5616,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}