Survey on Convex Drawing of Planar Graph

Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 2010

Hierarchical graphs are graphs with layering structures; clustered graphs are graphs with recursive clustering structures. Both have applications in VLSI design, CASE tools, software visualisation and visualisation of social networks and biological networks. Straight-line drawing algorithms for hierarchical graphs and clustered graphs have been presented in [P. Eades, Q. Feng, X. Lin and H. Nagamochi, Straight-line drawing algorithms for hierarchical graphs and clustered graphs, Algorithmica, 44, pp. 1-32, 2006].

International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, 2006

In a convex drawing of a plane graph G, every facial cycle of G is drawn as a convex polygon. A polygon for the outer facial cycle is called an outer convex polygon. A necessary and sufficient condition for a plane graph G to have a convex drawing is known. However, it has not been known how many apices of an outer convex polygon are necessary for G to have a convex drawing. In this paper, we show that the minimum number of apices of an outer convex polygon necessary for G to have a convex drawing is, in effect, equal to the number of leaves in a triconnected component decomposition tree of a new graph constructed from G, and that a convex drawing of G having the minimum number of apices can be found in linear time.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006

In this paper, we study a new problem of finding a convex drawing of graphs with a non-convex boundary. It is proved that every triconnected plane graph whose boundary is fixed with a star-shaped polygon admits a drawing in which every inner facial cycle is drawn as a convex polygon. Such a drawing, called an inner-convex drawing, can be obtained in linear time.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2013

Given a plane graph G (i.e., a planar graph with a fixed planar embedding) and a simple cycle C in G whose vertices are mapped to a convex polygon, we consider the question whether this drawing can be extended to a planar straight-line drawing of G. We characterize when this is possible in terms of simple necessary conditions, which we prove to be sufficient. This also leads to a linear-time testing algorithm. If a drawing extension exists, it can be computed in the same running time.

2012

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International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications, 1997

We consider the problem of embedding the vertices of a plane graph into a small (polynomial size) grid in the plane in such a way that the edges are straight, nonintersecting line segments and faces are convex polygons. We present a linear-time algorithm which, given an n-vertex 3-connected plane G (with n ≥ 3), finds such a straight-line convex embedding of G into a (n - 2) × (n - 2) grid.

Discrete Applied Mathematics, 2008

In this paper, we study a new problem of finding a convex drawing of graphs with a non-convex boundary. It is proved that every triconnected plane graph whose boundary is fixed with a star-shaped polygon admits a drawing in which every inner facial cycle is drawn as a convex polygon. Such a drawing, called an inner-convex drawing, can be obtained in linear time.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002

A plane graph is a planar graph with a fixed embedding in the plane. In a rectangular drawing of a plane graph, each vertex is drawn as a point, each edge is drawn as a horizontal or vertical line segment, and each face is drawn as a rectangle. A planar graph is said to have a rectangular drawing if at least one of its plane embeddings has a rectangular drawing. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm to examine whether a planar graph G of maximum degree three has a rectangular drawing or not, and to find a rectangular drawing of G if it exists.

Algorithmica, 2007

We use Schnyder woods of 3-connected planar graphs to produce convex straight line drawings on a grid of size (n − 2 − ∆) × (n − 2 − ∆). The parameter ∆ ≥ 0 depends on the Schnyder wood used for the drawing. This parameter is in the range 0 ≤ ∆ ≤ n 2 − 2. The algorithm is a refinement of the face-counting-algorithm, thus, in particular, the size of the grid is at most

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002

In a rectangular drawing of a plane graph, each edge is drawn as a horizontal or vertical line segment, and all faces including the outer face are drawn as rectangles. In this paper, we introduce an "extended rectangular drawing" in which all inner faces are drawn as rectangles but the outer face is drawn as a rectilinear polygon with designated corners, and give a necessary and sufficient condition for a plane graph to have an extended rectangular drawing.