scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2123122

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Planar graph drawing is a central topic in graph drawing having many applications in information visualization, VLSI design and CAD. This book, written by two well-known experts in graph drawing and theory of planar graphs, is a monograph which nicely covers many aspects of this field and is suitable for use in advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses. It connects fundamental graph-theoretic results with algorithmic aspects. After some introductory chapters, it presents in Chapter 4 straight line drawings of planar graphs on integer grids, and in particular the famous results by de Fraysseix et al. as well as by Schnyder. Then, in Chapter 5, the focus is on convex drawings and the results of Tutte, Thomassen and Chiba et al. as well as recent results on convex grid drawings. Chapter 6 deals with rectangular drawings and results by Miura et al. as well as by Thomassen. Chapter 7 deals with box-rectangular drawings, characterizes plane graphs having a box-rectangular drawing and gives a linear time algorithm for finding such a drawing. Chapter 8 deals with orthogonal drawings of plane graphs, and in particular presents the results by Tamassia for solving the problem of finding a bend-minimum orthogonal drawing by reducing the problem to network flow. Chapter 9 deals with octagonal drawings of plane graphs with prescribed face areas and again contains a linear time algorithm for finding such drawings. Appendix A presents planarity testing and embedding algorithms.




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