Gavrog stands for "Generation, Analysis and Visualization of Reticular Ornaments using Gavrog". It is a Java library together with a suite of interactive applications for the study of periodic net-like structures in space and their applications.
Network Visualization is a mature part of computer science that is enjoying a good deal of growth, partially fueled by Bioinformatics. Network is a synonym for Graph, and both refer to a collection of nodes and edges.