Smooth Orthogonal Drawings of Planar Graphs

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-54423-1_13zbMATH Open1405.68232arXiv1312.3538OpenAlexW1533187596MaRDI QIDQ5405035FDOQ5405035

Michael Kaufmann, Md. Jawaherul Alam, Michael A. Bekos, Alexander Wolff, Stephen G. Kobourov, Philipp Kindermann

Publication date: 31 March 2014

Published in: LATIN 2014: Theoretical Informatics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In emph{smooth orthogonal layouts} of planar graphs, every edge is an alternating sequence of axis-aligned segments and circular arcs with common axis-aligned tangents. In this paper, we study the problem of finding smooth orthogonal layouts of low emph{edge complexity}, that is, with few segments per edge. We say that a graph has emph{smooth complexity} k---for short, an SC_k-layout---if it admits a smooth orthogonal drawing of edge complexity at most $k$. Our main result is that every 4-planar graph has an SC_2-layout. While our drawings may have super-polynomial area, we show that, for 3-planar graphs, cubic area suffices. Further, we show that every biconnected 4-outerplane graph admits an SC_1-layout. On the negative side, we demonstrate an infinite family of biconnected 4-planar graphs that requires exponential area for an SC_1-layout. Finally, we present an infinite family of biconnected 4-planar graphs that does not admit an SC_1-layout.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.3538

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10)

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