3 research outputs found
Planar L-Drawings of Bimodal Graphs
In a planar L-drawing of a directed graph (digraph) each edge e is
represented as a polyline composed of a vertical segment starting at the tail
of e and a horizontal segment ending at the head of e. Distinct edges may
overlap, but not cross. Our main focus is on bimodal graphs, i.e., digraphs
admitting a planar embedding in which the incoming and outgoing edges around
each vertex are contiguous. We show that every plane bimodal graph without
2-cycles admits a planar L-drawing. This includes the class of upward-plane
graphs. Finally, outerplanar digraphs admit a planar L-drawing - although they
do not always have a bimodal embedding - but not necessarily with an
outerplanar embedding.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 28th International Symposium on
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2020
More compact orthogonal drawings by allowing additional bends
Compacting orthogonal drawings is a challenging task. Usually, algorithms try to compute drawings with small area or total edge length while preserving the underlying orthogonal shape. We suggest a moderate relaxation of the orthogonal compaction problem, namely the one-dimensional monotone flexible edge compaction problem with fixed vertex star geometry. We further show that this problem can be solved in polynomial time using a network flow model. An experimental evaluation shows that by allowing additional bends could reduce the total edge length and the drawing area
Fast Compaction for Orthogonal Drawings with Vertices of Prescribed Size
In this paper, we present a new compaction algorithm which computes orthogonal drawings where the size of the vertices is given as input. This is a critical constraint for many practical applications like UML. The algorithm provides a drastic improvement on previous approaches. It has linear worst case running time and experiments show that it performs very well in practice