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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Node Overlap Removal by Growing a Tree

Authors : Lev Nachmanson, Arlind Nocaj, Sergey Bereg, Leishi Zhang, Alexander Holroyd

Published in: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Node overlap removal is a necessary step in many scenarios including laying out a graph, or visualizing a tag cloud. Our contribution is a new overlap removal algorithm that iteratively builds a Minimum Spanning Tree on a Delaunay triangulation of the node centers and removes the node overlaps by “growing” the tree. The algorithm is simple to implement yet produces high quality layouts. According to our experiments it runs several times faster than the current state-of-the-art methods.

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Metadata
Title
Node Overlap Removal by Growing a Tree
Authors
Lev Nachmanson
Arlind Nocaj
Sergey Bereg
Leishi Zhang
Alexander Holroyd
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-50105-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-50106-2

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50106-2_3

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