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Van Goethem and Verbeek recently showed how to morph between two planar orthogonal drawings $\Gamma_I$ and $\Gamma_O$ of a connected graph $G$ while preserving planarity, orthogonality, and the complexity of the drawing during the morph.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Arthur van Goethem , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

Modern methods of graph theory describe a graph up to isomorphism, which makes it difficult to create mathematical models for visualizing graph drawings on a plane. The topological drawing of the planar part of a graph allows representing…

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

We present simpler algorithms for two closely related morphing problems, both based on the barycentric interpolation paradigm introduced by Floater and Gotsman, which is in turn based on Floater's asymmetric extension of Tutte's classical…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Jeff Erickson , Patrick Lin

An $st$-path in a drawing of a graph is self-approaching if during the traversal of the corresponding curve from $s$ to any point $t'$ on the curve the distance to $t'$ is non-increasing. A path has increasing chords if it is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-05 Martin Nöllenburg , Roman Prutkin , Ignaz Rutter

The visualization of any graph plays important role in various aspects, such as graph drawing software. Complex systems (like large databases or networks) that have a graph structure should be properly visualized in order to avoid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-14 Nicolaos Matsakis

While orthogonal drawings have a long history, smooth orthogonal drawings have been introduced only recently. So far, only planar drawings or drawings with an arbitrary number of crossings per edge have been studied. Recently, a lot of…

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

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2009-01-27 Xavier Goaoc , Jan Kratochvil , Yoshio Okamoto , Chan-Su Shin , Andreas Spillner , Alexander Wolff

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

We consider the problem of morphing between two planar drawings of the same triangulated graph, maintaining straight-line planarity. A paper in SODA 2013 gave a morph that consists of $O(n^2)$ steps where each step is a linear morph that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Fidel Barrera-Cruz , Penny Haxell , Anna Lubiw

Graph drawing addresses the problem of finding a layout of a graph that satisfies given aesthetic and understandability objectives. The most important objective in graph drawing is minimization of the number of crossings in the drawing, as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Mohamed A. El-Sayed , S. Abdel-Khalek , Hanan H. Amin

A graph drawing is $\textit{greedy}$ if, for every ordered pair of vertices $(x,y)$, there is a path from $x$ to $y$ such that the Euclidean distance to $y$ decreases monotonically at every vertex of the path. Greedy drawings support a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-01-03 Giordano Da Lozzo , Anthony D'Angelo , Fabrizio Frati

We propose a convex-concave programming approach for the labeled weighted graph matching problem. The convex-concave programming formulation is obtained by rewriting the weighted graph matching problem as a least-square problem on the set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-27 Mikhail Zaslavskiy , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

In this paper we study the computational complexity of the Upward Planarity Extension problem, which takes in input an upward planar drawing $\Gamma_H$ of a subgraph $H$ of a directed graph $G$ and asks whether $\Gamma_H$ can be extended to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Giordano Da Lozzo , Giuseppe Di Battista , Fabrizio Frati

We initiate the study of extremal problems about faces in convex rectilinear drawings of~$K_n$, that is, drawings where vertices are represented by points in the plane in convex position and edges by line segments between the points…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Martin Balko , Anna Brötzner , Fabian Klute , Josef Tkadlec

In many cases the convexity of the image of a linear map with range is $R^n$ is automatic because of the facial structure of the domain of the map. We develop a four step procedure for proving this kind of ``automatic convexity''. To make…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Charles A. Akemann , Nik Weaver

A crossing-free morph is a continuous deformation between two graph drawings that preserves straight-line pairwise noncrossing edges. Motivated by applications in 3D morphing problems, we initiate the study of morphing graph drawings in the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Oksana Firman , Tim Hegemann , Boris Klemz , Felix Klesen , Marie Diana Sieper , Alexander Wolff , Johannes Zink

A planar orthogonal drawing {\Gamma} of a connected planar graph G is a geometric representation of G such that the vertices are drawn as distinct points of the plane, the edges are drawn as chains of horizontal and vertical segments, and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Walter Didimo , Giuseppe Liotta , Giacomo Ortali , Maurizio Patrignani

Inspired by the classical fractional cascading technique, we introduce new techniques to speed up the following type of iterated search in 3D: The input is a graph $\mathbf{G}$ with bounded degree together with a set $H_v$ of 3D hyperplanes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Peyman Afshani , Yakov Nekrich , Frank Staals

In this paper we study planar morphs between straight-line planar grid drawings of trees. A morph consists of a sequence of morphing steps, where in a morphing step vertices move along straight-line trajectories at constant speed. We show…

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