Upward Embeddings and Orientations of Undirected Planar Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Walter Didimo;Maurizio Pizzonia

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WADS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

An upward embedding of an embedded planar graph states, for each vertex v, which edges are incident to v "above" or "below" and, in turn, induces an upward orientation of the edges. In this paper we characterize the set of all upward embeddings and orientations of a plane graph by using a simple flow model. We take advantage of such a flow model to compute upward orientations with the minimum number of sources and sinks of 1-connected graphs. Our theoretical results allow us to easily compute visibility representations of 1-connected graphs while having a certain control over the width and the height of the computed drawings, and to deal with partial assignments of the upward embeddings "underlying" the visibility representations.