Title
Block Crossings In Storyline Visualizations
Abstract
Storyline visualizations help visualize encounters of the characters in a story over time. Each character is represented by an x-monotone curve that goes from left to right. A meeting is represented by having the characters that participate in the meeting run close together for some time. In order to keep the visual complexity low, rather than just minimizing pairwise crossings of curves, we propose to count block crossings, that is, pairs of intersecting bundles of lines.Our main results are as follows. We show that minimizing the number of block crossings is NP-hard, and we develop, for meetings of bounded size, a constant-factor approximation. We also present two fixed-parameter algorithms and, for meetings of size 2, a greedy heuristic that we evaluate experimentally.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-50106-2_30
GRAPH DRAWING AND NETWORK VISUALIZATION (GD 2016)
DocType
Volume
Issue
Conference
9801
5
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
2
0.39
References 
Authors
7
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas C. van Dijk1639.52
Martin Fink2726.55
Norbert Fischer320.39
Fabian Lipp4144.44
Peter Markfelder520.39
Alexander Ravsky6102.31
Subhash Suri75255455.58
Alexander Wolff8436.65