- Confluent drawings: visualizing non-planar diagrams in a planar way.
M. Dickerson, D. Eppstein, M. T. Goodrich, and J. Meng.
arXiv:cs.CG/0212046.
11th Int. Symp. Graph Drawing, Perugia, Italy, 2003.
Springer, Lecture Notes in Comp. Sci. 2912, 2004, pp. 1–12.
J. Graph Algorithms and Applications (special issue for GD'03) 9 (1): 31–52, 2005.We describe a new method of drawing graphs, based on allowing the edges to be merged together and drawn as "tracks" (similar to train tracks). We present heuristics for finding such drawings based on my previous algorithms for finding maximal bipartite subgraphs, prove that several important families of graphs have confluent drawings, and provide examples of other graphs that can not be drawn in this way.