Title
Convex Grid Drawings of Plane Graphs with Rectangular Contours
Abstract
In a convex drawing of a plane graph, all edges are drawn as straight- line segments without any edge-intersection and all facial cycles are drawn as convex polygons. In a convex grid drawing, all vertices are put on grid points. A plane graph G has a convex drawing if and only if G is internally triconnected, and an internally triconnected plane graph G has a convex grid drawing on an (n 1)×(n 1) grid if either G is triconnected or the triconnected component decomposition tree T(G) of G has two or three leaves, where n is the number of vertices in G. In this paper, we show that an internally triconnected plane graph G has a convex grid drawing on a 2n × n2 grid if T(G) has exactly four leaves. We also present an algorithm to find such a drawing in linear time. Our convex grid drawing has a rectangular contour, while most of the known algorithms produce grid drawings having triangular contours.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
J. Graph Algorithms Appl.
plane graph,linear time
Field
DocType
Volume
Orthogonal convex hull,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Convex combination,Convex hull,Convex set,Pseudotriangle,Convex polytope,Steinitz's theorem,Convex curve,Geometry,Mathematics
Journal
12
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
3
0.43
References 
Authors
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kazuyuki Miura1848.66
Akira Kamada240.81
Takao Nishizeki31771267.08