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Graph drawing

Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional (or, sometimes, three-dimensional) depictions of graphs arising from applications such as social network analysis, cartography, linguistics, and bioinformatics.

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Graphical conventions

Quality measures

Layout methods

Application-specific graph drawings

Software

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Graph drawing

Nodes110
Edges109
Triples81
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018182
Components1

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Graph drawing

Top relations

has method · 16
Graph drawing → Coffman, Graham, In, Laplacian, Layered, Often, Orthogonal, PCB, Spectral, Sugiyama-style, There, These, They, Tree, Typically, VLSI
related to Quality measures · 14
Graph drawing → Additionally, Angular, Cubic, Drawings, However, If, In, It, Many, Several, Similarly, Some, Symmetry, The
related to Software · 13
Graph drawing → AT, BioFabric, CorporationLinkurious, Cytoscape, GLEE, LaNet-vi, LuaTeX, Microsoft Automatic Graph Layout, NET, Python, Software, TikZ, Tulip
related to Graph drawing algorithms · 10
Graph drawing → Among, Gutwenger, Kant's, Misue, Mutzel, Sugiyama, Tamassia's, The Magnetic Spring Model, The Reingold-Tilford, There
related to External links · 6
Graph drawing → Graph, GraphX, NET Archived, Supports, Wayback Machine, WPF
related to Application-specific graph drawings · 5
Graph drawing → Bioinformatics, Data-flow, Graphs, Project, Sociograms
see also · 3
Graph drawing → Graph DrawingList, International Symposium, Unified Modeling Language
is a · 1
Graph drawing → area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional

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Graph drawingis aarea of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional0.90text
social network analysisinstance ofdepictions of graphs arising from applications0.80text
cartographyinstance ofdepictions of graphs arising from applications0.80text
linguisticsinstance ofdepictions of graphs arising from applications0.80text
and bioinformatics.A drawing of a graph or network diagram is a pictorial representation of the verticesinstance ofdepictions of graphs arising from applications0.80text
edges of a graphinstance ofdepictions of graphs arising from applications0.80text
tapering provide this information more effectivelyinstance ofuser studies have shown that other conventions0.80text
circle packingsinstance oflink diagrams include adjacency representations0.80text
in which vertices are represented by disjoint regions in the planeinstance oflink diagrams include adjacency representations0.80text
edges are represented by adjacencies between regionsinstance oflink diagrams include adjacency representations0.80text
the Laplacian derived from the adjacency matrix of the graph.Orthogonal layout methodsinstance ofor they may translate the forces directly into velocities or accelerations for the moving vertices.Spectral layout methods use as coordinates the eigenvectors of a matrix0.80text
which allow the edges of the graph to run horizontally or verticallyinstance ofor they may translate the forces directly into velocities or accelerations for the moving vertices.Spectral layout methods use as coordinates the eigenvectors of a matrix0.80text

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