On embedding a graph in the grid with the maximum number of bends and other bad features

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Di Battista;Fabrizio Frati;Maurizio Patrignani

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università di Roma Tre;Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università di Roma Tre;Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università di Roma Tre

  • Venue:
  • FUN'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Fun with algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Graph Drawing is (usually) concerned with the production of readable representations of graphs. In this paper, instead of investigating how to produce "good" drawings, we tackle the opposite problem of producing "bad" drawings. In particular, we study how to construct orthogonal drawings with many bends along the edges and with large area. Our results show surprising contact points, in Graph Drawing, between the computational cost of niceness and the one of ugliness.