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An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of polygonal obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are connected by an edge in $G$ if and only if the line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Martin Balko , Josef Cibulka , Pavel Valtr

We give an algorithm to morph planar graph drawings that achieves small grid size at the expense of allowing a constant number of bends on each edge. The input is an $n$-vertex planar graph and two planar straight-line drawings of the graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Therese Biedl , Anna Lubiw , Jack Spalding-Jamieson

Drawing a graph in the plane with as few crossings as possible is one of the central problems in graph drawing and computational geometry. Another option is to remove the smallest number of vertices or edges such that the remaining graph…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Akanksha Agrawal , Sergio Cabello , Michael Kaufmann , Saket Saurabh , Roohani Sharma , Yushi Uno , Alexander Wolff

Being motivated by John Tantalo's Planarity Game, we consider straight line plane drawings of a planar graph $G$ with edge crossings and wonder how obfuscated such drawings can be. We define $obf(G)$, the obfuscation complexity of $G$, to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-10 Oleg Verbitsky

We discuss the problem of embedding graphs in the plane with restrictions on the vertex mapping. In particular, we introduce a technique for drawing planar graphs with a fixed vertex mapping that bounds the number of times edges bend. An…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-05 Taylor Gordon

The slope number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of slopes needed for the segments representing the edges in any straight-line drawing of $G$. It serves as a measure of the visual complexity of a graph drawing. Several bounds on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Jonathan Klawitter , Johannes Zink

We construct a family of planar graphs $\{G_n\}_{n\geq 4}$, where $G_n$ has $n$ vertices including a source vertex $s$ and a sink vertex $t$, and edge weights that change linearly with a parameter $\lambda$ such that, as $\lambda$ varies in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Kshitij Gajjar , Jaikumar Radhakrishnan

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

While the notion of arboricity of a graph is well-known in graph theory, very few results are dedicated to the minimal number of trees covering the edges of a graph, called the tree number of a graph.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Natalia Vanetik

It is well known that any graph admits a crossing-free straight-line drawing in $\mathbb{R}^3$ and that any planar graph admits the same even in $\mathbb{R}^2$. For a graph $G$ and $d \in \{2,3\}$, let $\rho^1_d(G)$ denote the smallest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Steven Chaplick , Krzysztof Fleszar , Fabian Lipp , Alexander Ravsky , Oleg Verbitsky , Alexander Wolff

We describe a linear-time algorithm that finds a planar drawing of every graph of a simple line or pseudoline arrangement within a grid of area O(n^{7/6}). No known input causes our algorithm to use area \Omega(n^{1+\epsilon}) for any…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-16 David Eppstein

We prove that the geometric thickness of graphs whose maximum degree is no more than four is two. All of our algorithms run in O(n) time, where n is the number of vertices in the graph. In our proofs, we present an embedding algorithm for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christian A. Duncan , David Eppstein , Stephen G. Kobourov

In this paper, we introduce a new approach for drawing diagrams that have applications in software visualization. Our approach is to use a technique we call confluent drawing for visualizing non-planar diagrams in a planar way. This…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Matthew Dickerson , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Jeremy Meng

Braids can be represented geometrically as curve diagrams. The geometric complexity of a braid is the minimal complexity of a curve diagram representing it. We introduce and study the corresponding notion of geometric generating function.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Vincent Jugé

We study 3-plane drawings, that is, drawings of graphs in which every edge has at most three crossings. We show how the recently developed Density Formula for topological drawings of graphs (KKKRSU GD 2024) can be used to count the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Miriam Goetze , Michael Hoffmann , Ignaz Rutter , Torsten Ueckerdt

Recently, the second and third author showed that complete geometric graphs on $2n$ vertices in general cannot be partitioned into $n$ plane spanning trees. Building up on this work, in this paper, we initiate the study of partitioning into…

In this paper, we investigate three fundamental problems regarding cut complexes of graphs: their realizability, the uniqueness of graph reconstruction from them, and their algorithmic recognition. We define the parameter $m(d,n)$ as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yufeng Shen , Zhiyu Song , Fenglin Yu , Leopold Wuhan Zhou , Jingqi Zhuang

The task of finding an extension to a given partial drawing of a graph while adhering to constraints on the representation has been extensively studied in the literature, with well-known results providing efficient algorithms for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sujoy Bhore , Robert Ganian , Liana Khazaliya , Fabrizio Montecchiani , Martin Nöllenburg

Given a straight-line drawing of a graph, a segment is a maximal set of edges that form a line segment. Given a planar graph $G$, the segment number of $G$ is the minimum number of segments that can be achieved by any planar straight-line…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sabine Cornelsen , Giordano Da Lozzo , Luca Grilli , Siddharth Gupta , Jan Kratochvíl , Alexander Wolff

We investigate the problem of constructing planar drawings with few bends for two related problems, the partially embedded graph problem---to extend a straight-line planar drawing of a subgraph to a planar drawing of the whole graph---and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Timothy M. Chan , Fabrizio Frati , Carsten Gutwenger , Anna Lubiw , Petra Mutzel , Marcus Schaefer