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In Gephi, if a node A connects to nodes B, C and D, the connections will be represented by 3 distinct edges. However, assuming the nodes B, C and D are close to each other, in some applications it may be preferable to display the edges as a single edge which branches out at the end to the destination nodes. This could go further, where each node only has a single outward edge, which branches out at various points along the edge.

Is this a feature that is already available in Gephi? If not, is this something that is doable, or would the groundwork of Gephi make this extremely difficult to implement?

Graph databases are of three types: hypergraph, property graph, or triples. (Ref: O'Reiley book on Graph Databases) What you are talking about is a hypergraph. Gephi is built from the ground up as a property graph. Is it going to change … it would have to fundamentally change the way Gephi operates in my estimation.