Morphing planar graphs in spherical space

  • Authors:
  • Stephen G. Kobourov;Matthew Landis

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona;Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona

  • Venue:
  • GD'06 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Graph drawing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We consider the problem of intersection-free planar graph morphing, and in particular, a generalization from Euclidean space to spherical space. We show that there exists a continuous and intersection-free morph between two sphere drawings of a maximally planar graph, provided that both sphere drawings have convex inscribed polytopes, where sphere drawings are the spherical equivalent of plane drawings: intersection-free geodesic-arc drawings. In addition, we describe a morphing algorithm along with its implementation. Movies of sample morphs can be found at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~mlandis/smorph.