node map, still working on it...

so I'm still trying to figure this thing out. I've made a few changes, It's loading from XML now, it's calculating the strength of attraction between each pair of 'friends' properly, it's finding the node with the most friends and placing it in the center, then it's placing all other nodes based on their attraction to the center node.
I'm beginning to think that this is the wrong way to go about it though. I'm going to try to take a more organic approach, give each node a random position, and have them connected to their friends by spring constraints (stronger and shorter the better friends they are). Then I'll just let them come to a state of equilibrium on their own. It'll also be nice because it will add a little bit of movement to what is currently very static and boring.

we'll see how it goes