Interactive graphs in Rerun with a Rust port of D3-force
Rerun 0.21 comes with a new graph viewer that's written in Rust and runs in the browser via wasm. It's powered by a new force based layout engine that is a port of much of d3-force to Rust. (The release also contains some other cool stuff like undo/redo implemented on top of a timeseries DB.) We built this with applications in robotics and spatial computing in mind but would love to hear feedback from folks that would see this as useful in other domains as well.
Interactive graphs in Rerun with a Rust port of D3-force launched on December 20, 2024 with 65 votes, #446 of 5,365 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Rerun 0.21 introduces an interactive graph viewer built in Rust that runs in browsers via WebAssembly, powered by a force-based layout engine ported from D3-force. The release also includes undo/redo functionality built on a time-series database. Designed for robotics and spatial computing applications, it targets developers who need to visualize and interact with graph data structures in web environments.
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From the sources
Rerun 0.21 brings our first iteration on supporting general graphs in Rerun with a new graph view. It also comes with a host of UX improvements like drag & drop of entities, undo & redo, grids for 3D views and more.
Rerun is building the multimodal data stack for robotics and spatial intelligence. Many of the structures and computations in these fields can be modeled as graphs, for example ROS graphs, semantic scene graphs, belief networks, action graphs, and pose graphs. We're therefore super excited to release our first iteration of a Graph view in Rerun 0.21 , powered by the new GraphNodes and GraphEdges archetypes. Check out a live demo here . This first version of the view comes without some features we'd like to add over time like support for hierarchical and multi-entity graphs, the ability to associate data with edges, and more layout engines. But it's already quite powerful and will hopefully…from rerun.io
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