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temple · 4341 days ago · link · · parent · post: Our business app doesn't need your game development skills (using damped springs to place labels on a map)
I don't know if the author is claiming on inventing something new, but using springs for graph/label placement has been used for a while in the infovis community. There's a lot of other graph placement algorithms if you are interested.