We prove that if one wants to make a plane graph drawing straight-line then in the worst case one has to move almost all vertices.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.3373,
title = {How Much Work Does It Take To Straighten a Plane Graph Out?},
author = {Mihyun Kang and Mathias Schacht and Oleg Verbitsky},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.3373},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
9 pages, the 2nd version includes literally the first version and is appended with new Appendices A and B