Upward Planarity Checking: ``Faces Are More than Polygons''

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Di Battista;Giuseppe Liotta

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • GD '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper we look at upward planarity from a new perspective. Namely, we study the problem of checking whether a given drawing is upward planar. Our checker exploits the relationships between topology and geometry of upward planar drawings to verify the upward planarity of a significant family of drawings. The checker is simple and optimal both in terms of efficiency and in terms of degree.