Automatic visualisation of metro maps

نویسندگان

  • Seok-Hee Hong
  • Damian Merrick
  • Hugo A. D. do Nascimento
چکیده

We investigate the new problem of automatic metro map layout. In general, a metro map consists of a set of lines which have intersections or overlaps. We define a set of aesthetic criteria for good metro map layouts and present a method to produce such layouts automatically. Our method uses a variation of the spring algorithm with a suitable preprocessing step. The experimental results with real world data sets show that our method produces good metro map layouts quickly. r 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Vis. Lang. Comput.

دوره 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006