Convex Drawings of Plane Graphs of Minimum Outer Apices

Convex Drawings of Hierarchical Plane Graphs

This paper proves that every internally triconnected hierarchical plane graph with the outer facial cycle drawn as a convex polygon admits a convex drawing. We present an algorithm which constructs such a drawing. This extends the previous known result that every hierarchical plane graph admits a straight-line drawing.

Beyond Outerplanarity

We study straight-line drawings of graphs where the vertices are placed in convex position in the plane, i.e., convex drawings. We consider two families of graph classes with nice convex drawings: outer k-planar graphs, where each edge is crossed by at most k other edges; and, outer k-quasi-planar graphs where no k edges can mutually cross. We show that the outer k-planar graphs are (b √ 4k + 1...

Minimum-Segment Convex Drawings of 3-Connected Cubic Plane Graphs

A convex drawing of a plane graph G is a plane drawing of G, where each vertex is drawn as a point, each edge is drawn as a straight line segment and each face is drawn as a convex polygon. A maximal segment is a drawing of a maximal set of edges that form a straight line segment. A minimum-segment convex drawing of G is a convex drawing of G where the number of maximal segments is the minimum ...

Convex drawings of hierarchical planar graphs and clustered planar graphs

Hierarchical graphs are graphs with layering structures; clustered graphs are graphs with recursive clustering structures. Both have applications in VLSI design, CASE tools, software visualisation and visualisation of social networks and biological networks. Straight-line drawing algorithms for hierarchical graphs and clustered graphs have been presented in [P. Eades, Q. Feng, X. Lin and H. Nag...

Convex Drawings of 3 - Conne ted Plane Graphs