SixDegrees is a game based on the idea of six degrees of seperation. The idea is that all things living or not can be connected within six steps.
- Click on new game.
- You will be presented with your start and goal articles.
- Click on the first node to reveal your next possible choices.
- Progress through the game, clicking node by node until you get to your goal!
- You can zoom in and around the graph by using your mouse wheel, or pinching on a laptop touch pad!
1. Clone repository. How to clone a repository
$ pip install -r requirements.txt$ python manage.py makemigrations
$ python manage.py migrate
5. The following step only applies if you intend to make a local copy of the database. We strongly recommend you use our hosted version.
You must Install neo4j and change lines 7 - 9 in the six_degrees/six_degrees/game/graph.py to look like the follwing code:
def connection():
return GraphDatabase("http://localhost:7474/db/data/", username="neo4j", password="password")
#return GraphDatabase("http://hobby-ekngppohojekgbkepjibeaol.dbs.graphenedb.com:24789/db/data/", username="testing-user", password = "b.SIxCtcPc51R5.aaW8WZa65LdsjGgZ")
- register account
- Change password to:
password - Run neo4j;
- Run the population script located in: six_degrees/six_degrees/game/populate_graph.py
$ python populate_graph.py
IMPORTANT: this script may take 40-50 minutes to populate the database!
$ python population_script.py
$ python manage.py createsuperuser
$ python manage.py runserver
9. Open local host: open
http://127.0.0.1:8000
| Package | Version |
|---|---|
| beautifulsoup4 | 4.5.3 |
| Django | 1.10.6 |
| neo4j-driver | 1.1.2 |
| neo4jrestclient | 2.1.1 |
| py2neo | 3.1.2 |
| requests | 2.4.3 |
| wheel | 0.24.0 |
| django-registration-redux | 1.4 |
| Pillow | 4.0.0 |
- For more reliable quality rendering don’t use safari browser, the pixilation does not always render due to sigma.
- During periods of inactivity the hosted graph database sleeps. Therefore the first interaction with the graph database is slightly longer than normal usage.