Lower Bounds for Planar Orthogonal Drawings of Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Roberto Tamassia
  • Ioannis G. Tollis
  • Jeffrey Scott Vitter
چکیده

We study planar orthogonal drawings of graphs and provide lower bounds on the number of bends along the edges. We exhibit graphs on n vertices that require (n) bends in any layout, and show that there exist optimal drawings that require (n) bends and have all of them on a single edge of length (n 2). This work nds applications in VLSI layout, aesthetic graph drawing, and communication by light or microwave.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Process. Lett.

دوره 39  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1991