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A straight-line drawing $\delta$ of a planar graph $G$ need not be plane, but can be made so by moving some of the vertices. Let shift$(G,\delta)$ denote the minimum number of vertices that need to be moved to turn $\delta$ into a plane…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2008-11-06 Xavier Goaoc , Jan Kratochvil , Yoshio Okamoto , Chan-Su Shin , Alexander Wolff

Strictly-convex straight-line drawings of $3$-connected planar graphs in small area form a classical research topic in Graph Drawing. Currently, the best-known area bound for such drawings is $O(n^2) \times O(n^2)$, as shown by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Michael A. Bekos , Martin Gronemann , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Antonios Symvonis

A star-simple drawing of a graph is a drawing in which adjacent edges do not cross. In contrast, there is no restriction on the number of crossings between two independent edges. When allowing empty lenses (a face in the arrangement induced…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Stefan Felsner , Michael Hoffmann , Kristin Knorr , Irene Parada

Every finite graph admits a \emph{simple (topological) drawing}, that is, a drawing where every pair of edges intersects in at most one point. However, in combination with other restrictions simple drawings do not universally exist. For…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Michael Hoffmann , Chih-Hung Liu , Meghana M. Reddy , Csaba D. Tóth

Inspired by the artwork of Mark Lombardi, we study the problem of constructing orthogonal drawings where a small number of horizontal and vertical line segments covers all vertices. We study two problems on orthogonal drawings of planar…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Michael Dillencourt , Michael T. Goodrich

This paper studies planar drawings of graphs in which each vertex is represented as a point along a sequence of horizontal lines, called levels, and each edge is either a horizontal segment or a strictly $y$-monotone curve. A graph is…

Given an n-vertex graph G, a drawing of G in the plane is a mapping of its vertices into points of the plane, and its edges into continuous curves, connecting the images of their endpoints. A crossing in such a drawing is a point where two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Julia Chuzhoy , Yury Makarychev , Anastasios Sidiropoulos

A graph with n vertices is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once, and is optimal if it has the maximum of 4n-8 edges. We show that optimal 1-planar graphs can be recognized in linear time. Our…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Franz J. Brandenburg

A crossing-free straight-line drawing of a graph is monotone if there is a monotone path between any pair of vertices with respect to some direction. We show how to construct a monotone drawing of a tree with $n$ vertices on an $O(n^{1.5})…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Philipp Kindermann , André Schulz , Joachim Spoerhase , Alexander Wolff

The $2$-layer drawing model is a well-established paradigm to visualize bipartite graphs. Several beyond-planar graph classes have been studied under this model. Surprisingly, however, the fundamental class of $k$-planar graphs has been…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Patrizio Angelini , Giordano Da Lozzo , Henry Förster , Thomas Schneck

Simple drawings are drawings of graphs in which the edges are Jordan arcs and each pair of edges share at most one point (a proper crossing or a common endpoint). We introduce a special kind of simple drawings that we call generalized…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Oswin Aichholzer , Alfredo García , Javier Tejel , Birgit Vogtenhuber , Alexandra Weinberger

A visualized graph is a powerful tool for data analysis and synthesis tasks. In this case, the task of visualization constitutes not only in displaying vertices and edges according to the graph representation, but also in ensuring that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

We introduce the family of $k$-gap-planar graphs for $k \geq 0$, i.e., graphs that have a drawing in which each crossing is assigned to one of the two involved edges and each edge is assigned at most $k$ of its crossings. This definition is…

We study the classic graph drawing problem of drawing a planar graph using straight-line edges with a prescribed convex polygon as the outer face. Unlike previous algorithms for this problem, which may produce drawings with exponential…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-01 Erin W. Chambers , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Maarten Löffler

Consider a graph drawn on a surface (for example, the plane minus a finite set of obstacle points), possibly with crossings. We provide an algorithm to decide whether such a drawing can be untangled, namely, if one can slide the vertices…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Éric Colin de Verdière , Vincent Despré , Loïc Dubois

Recently, there has been interest in representing single graphs by multiple drawings; for example, using graph stories, storyplans, or uncrossed collections. In this paper, we apply this idea to orthogonal graph drawing. Due to the…

Reeb graphs are simple topological descriptors with applications in many areas like topological data analysis and computational geometry. Despite their prevalence, visualization of Reeb graphs has received less attention. In this paper, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Erin Chambers , Brittany Terese Fasy , Erfan Hosseini Sereshgi , Maarten Löffler

We consider the problem of finding a 1-planar drawing for a general graph, where a 1-planar drawing is a drawing in which each edge participates in at most one crossing. Since this problem is known to be NP-hard we investigate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Michael J. Bannister , Sergio Cabello , David Eppstein

A simple topological graph $G$ is a graph drawn in the plane so that any pair of edges have at most one point in common, which is either an endpoint or a proper crossing. $G$ is called saturated if no further edge can be added without…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Jan Kynčl , János Pach , Radoš Radoičić , Géza Tóth

The edge-length ratio of a straight-line drawing of a graph is the ratio between the lengths of the longest and of the shortest edge in the drawing. The planar edge-length ratio of a planar graph is the minimum edge-length ratio of any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Manuel Borrazzo , Fabrizio Frati