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A Better Heuristic for Orthogonal Graph Drawings


Author(s) : Goos Kant Goos Kant Therese Biedl Therese Biedl Therese Biedl Goos Kant, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1994
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : An orthogonal drawing of a graph is an embedding in the plane such that all edges are drawn as sequences of horizontal and vertical segments. We present a linear time and space algorithm to draw any connected graph orthogonally on a grid of size n \Theta n with at most 2n + 2 bends. Each edge is bent at most twice. In particular for non-planar and non-biconnected planar graphs, this is a big improvement. The algorithm is very simple, easy to implement, and it handles both planar and non-planar graphs at the same time. 1,