Title
Are Crossings Important For Drawing Large Graphs?
Abstract
Reducing the number of edge crossings is considered one of the most important graph drawing aesthetics. While real-world graphs tend to be large and dense, most of the earlier work on evaluating the impact of edge crossings utilizes relatively small graphs that are manually generated and manipulated. We study the effect on task performance of increased edge crossings in automatically generated layouts for graphs, from different datasets, with different sizes, and with different densities. The results indicate that increasing the number of crossings negatively impacts accuracy and performance time and that impact is significant for small graphs but not significant for large graphs. We also quantitatively evaluate the impact of edge crossings on crossing angles and stress in automatically constructed graph layouts. We find a moderate correlation between minimizing stress and the minimizing the number of crossings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-662-45803-7_20
GRAPH DRAWING (GD 2014)
Field
DocType
Volume
Graph drawing,Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Computer science
Conference
8871
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
14
0.61
References 
Authors
23
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stephen G. Kobourov11440122.20
Sergey Pupyrev214817.77
Bahador Saket314011.70