Online Hierarchical Graph Drawing

نویسندگان

  • Stephen C. North
  • Gordon Woodhull
چکیده

We propose a heuristic for maintaining dynamic hierarchical graph layouts. The heuristic is an on-line interpretation of the static layout algorithm of Sugiyama, Togawa and Toda. It incorporates topological and geometric information with the objective of making layout animations that are both incrementally stable and readable through long editing sequences. We present measurements of an experimental prototype using generated test data. Applications include incremental graph browsing and editing, the display of dynamic data structures and networks, and browsing large graphs.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001