Orthogonal Drawings of Cycles in 3D Space (Extended Abstract)

  • Authors:
  • Giuseppe Di Battista;Giuseppe Liotta;Anna Lubiw;Sue Whitesides

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • GD '00 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Let C be a directed cycle, whose edges have each been assigned a desired direction in 3D (East, West, North, South, Up, or Down) but no length. We say that C is a shape cycle. We consider the following problem. Does there exist an orthogonal drawing Γ of C in 3D such that each edge of Γ respects the direction assigned to it and such that Γ does not intersect itself? If the answer is positive, we say that C is simple. This problem arises in the context of extending orthogonal graph drawing techniques and VLSI rectilinear layout techniques from 2D to 3D. We give a combinatorial characterization of simple shape cycles that yields linear time recognition and drawing algorithms.