A note on the self-similarity of some orthogonal drawings

  • Authors:
  • Maurizio Patrignani

  • Affiliations:
  • Università di Roma Tre, Italy

  • Venue:
  • GD'04 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Large graphs are difficult to browse and to visually explore. This note adds up evidence that some graph drawing techniques, which produce readable layouts when applied to medium-size graphs, yield self-similar patterns when launched on huge graphs. To prove this, we consider the problem of assessing the self-similarity of graph drawings, and measure the box-counting dimension of the output of three algorithms, each using a different approach for producing orthogonal grid drawings with a reduced number of bends.