Tulip is a software system that displays graphs up to 500,000 elements called nodes and edges, which can be visualized comfortably in your personal computer. Tulip CVS helps people who are interested in plugins, documentations and writing extensions.

Tulip consists of several things like Lib Tulip, Lib Tulip-Ogl, Plugins and General. Lib Tulip usually adds openings to grouped and ungrouped nodes, simplifies and optimizes hierarchy of graphs. Lib Tulip-Ogl adds antialiasing of lines, fix bugs in font and change font types. Plugin means optimization of the strength plug-ins and use of new reflexion mechanism, which manages parameters. General Tulip helps in code documentation, code cleaning and code refactoring.

Tulip comprises of loading windows, which shows the different plug-ins like import-export plug-in, selection and clustering plug-in. The Application window helps in creating new graphs, loading graphs in gml format and importing a graph.

The Super graph window is split into 3D view sub window, Property editor sub window, cluster tree sub window and text console sub window. The 3D view sub window displays the graph and leads to mouse operation by simply clicking on the graph. Tulip helps in the drawing of infinite number of nodes and edges, which enables the navigation in the graph in spite of the graphics being slow.

The property editor sub window gives the list of all inherited and local properties of a graph. The cluster tree sub window changes the current view of the graph by simply clicking on the cluster tree. The text console displays all information drawn on the graphs.