A Layout algorithm for data flow diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On embedding a graph in the grid with the minimum number of bends
SIAM Journal on Computing
Automatic graph drawing and readability of diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
An experimental comparison of three graph drawing algorithms (extended abstract)
Proceedings of the eleventh annual symposium on Computational geometry
Orthogonal graph drawing with constraints
SODA '00 Proceedings of the eleventh annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
Computing Orthogonal Drawings with the Minimum Number of Bends
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Drawing High Degree Graphs with Low Bend Numbers
GD '95 Proceedings of the Symposium on Graph Drawing
Algorithms and Area Bounds for Nonplanar Orthogonal Drawings
GD '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
Planarization of Clustered Graphs
GD '01 Revised Papers from the 9th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
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This paper discusses the calculation of bend minimal shapes for non-planar graphs with given topology. Based on the Simple-Kandinsky drawing standard – a simplification of the more complex Kandinsky standard – we show the disadvantage of using standard models for this task: We show that the minimal bend count is suboptimal, when these models are applied to non-planar graphs; it is therefore beneficial to extend these standards. We define such an extension for Simple-Kandinsky called Skanpag (Simple-Kandinsky for Non-Planar Graphs). It treats edge crossings in a special way by letting them share identical grid points where appropriate. Hence it allows crossings of whole bundles of edges instead of single edges only. Besides having a reduced number of bends, drawings following this standard are easier to read and consume less area than those produced by the traditional approaches. In this paper, we show a sharp upper bound of the bend count, if the standard Simple-Kandinsky model is used to calculate shapes for non-planar graphs. Furthermore, we present an algorithm that computes provably bend-minimal drawings in the Skanpag standard.