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We study the complexity of two problems in simultaneous graph drawing. The first problem, GRacSim Drawing, asks for finding a simultaneous geometric embedding of two graphs such that only crossings at right angles are allowed. The second…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Luca Grilli

Scheinerman and Wilf (1994) assert that `an important open problem in the study of graph embeddings is to determine the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph K_n.' A rectilinear drawing of K_n is an arrangement of n vertices in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-04 Alex Brodsky , Stephane Durocher , Ellen Gethner

Research about crossings is typically about minimization. In this paper, we consider \emph{maximizing} the number of crossings over all possible ways to draw a given graph in the plane. Alpert et al. [Electron. J. Combin., 2009] conjectured…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Markus Chimani , Stefan Felsner , Stephen Kobourov , Torsten Ueckerdt , Pavel Valtr , Alexander Wolff

In this paper, we introduce the following new concept in graph drawing. Our task is to find a small collection of drawings such that they all together satisfy some property that is useful for graph visualization. We propose investigating a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petr Hliněný , Tomáš Masařík

Planar graphs can be represented as intersection graphs of different types of geometric objects in the plane, e.g., circles (Koebe, 1936), line segments (Chalopin \& Gon{\c{c}}alves, 2009), \textsc{L}-shapes (Gon{\c{c}}alves et al, 2018).…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Dibyayan Chakraborty , Kshitij Gajjar

A graph is a mathematical object consisting of a set of vertices and a set of edges connecting vertices. Graphs can be drawn on paper in various ways, but until recently all published methods of drawing graphs have had undesirable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Bob Blakley , G R Blakley , Sean M Blakley

We consider the problem of placing arrow heads in directed graph drawings without them overlapping other drawn objects. This gives drawings where edge directions can be deduced unambiguously. We show hardness of the problem, present exact…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Carla Binucci , Markus Chimani , Walter Didimo , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani

A straight-line drawing of a graph $G$ is a mapping which assigns to each vertex a point in the plane and to each edge a straight-line segment connecting the corresponding two points. The rectilinear crossing number of a graph $G$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Jacob Fox , Janos Pach , Andrew Suk

Recent empirical research has indicated that human graph reading performance improves when crossing angles increase. However, crossing angle has not been used as an aesthetic criterion for graph drawing algorithms so far. In this paper, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Peter Eades , Weidong Huang , Seok-Hee Hong

A drawing of a graph is fan-planar if the edges intersecting a common edge $a$ share a vertex $A$ on the same side of $a$. More precisely, orienting $e$ arbitrarily and the other edges towards $A$ results in a consistent orientation of the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Boris Klemz , Kristin Knorr , Meghana M. Reddy , Felix Schröder

We investigate the problem of drawing graphs in 2D and 3D such that their edges (or only their vertices) can be covered by few lines or planes. We insist on straight-line edges and crossing-free drawings. This problem has many connections…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Steven Chaplick , Krzysztof Fleszar , Fabian Lipp , Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky , Alexander Wolff

A drawing of a graph is greedy if for each ordered pair of vertices u and v, there is a path from u to v such that the Euclidean distance to v decreases monotonically at every vertex of the path. The existence of greedy drawings has been…

In graph realization problems one is given a degree sequence and the task is to decide whether there is a graph whose vertex degrees match to the given sequence. This realization problem is known to be polynomial-time solvable when the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2012-01-18 Sepp Hartung , André Nichterlein

We investigate straight-line drawings of topological graphs that consist of a planar graph plus one edge, also called almost-planar graphs. We present a characterization of such graphs that admit a straight-line drawing. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Peter Eades , Seok-Hee Hong , Giuseppe Liotta , Naoki Katoh , Sheung-Hung Poon

The total angular resolution of a straight-line drawing is the minimum angle between two edges of the drawing. It combines two properties contributing to the readability of a drawing: the angular resolution, which is the minimum angle…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Oswin Aichholzer , Matias Korman , Yoshio Okamoto , Irene Parada , Daniel Perz , André van Renssen , Birgit Vogtenhuber

In the Segment Intersection Graph Representation Problem, we want to represent the vertices of a graph as straight line segments in the plane such that two segments cross if and only if there is an edge between the corresponding vertices.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Simon D. Fink , Matthias Pfretzschner , Peter Stumpf

In geographic information systems and in the production of digital maps for small devices with restricted computational resources one often wants to round coordinates to a rougher grid. This removes unnecessary detail and reduces space…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Andre Löffler , Thomas C. van Dijk , Alexander Wolff

IC-planar graphs are those graphs that admit a drawing where no two crossed edges share an end-vertex and each edge is crossed at most once. They are a proper subfamily of the 1-planar graphs. Given an embedded IC-planar graph $G$ with $n$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Franz J. Brandenburg , Walter Didimo , William S. Evans , Philipp Kindermann , Giuseppe Liotta , Fabrizio Montecchiani

A rectangular drawing of a planar graph $G$ is a planar drawing of $G$ in which vertices are mapped to grid points, edges are mapped to horizontal and vertical straight-line segments, and faces are drawn as rectangles. Sometimes this latter…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Carlos Alegria , Giordano Da Lozzo , Giuseppe Di Battista , Fabrizio Frati , Fabrizio Grosso , Maurizio Patrignani

By a poly-line drawing of a graph G on n vertices we understand a drawing of G in the plane such that each edge is represented by a polygonal arc joining its two respective vertices. We call a turning point of a polygonal arc the bend. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-15 Radoslav Fulek , Balázs Keszegh , Filip Morić