## An experimental study on the ply number of straight-line drawings.(English)Zbl 1405.05124

Summary: The ply number of a drawing is a new criterion of interest for graph drawing. Informally, the ply number of a straight-line drawing of a graph is defined as the maximum number of overlapping disks, where each disk is associated with a vertex and has a radius that is half the length of the longest edge incident to that vertex. This paper reports the results of an extensive experimental study that attempts to estimate correlations between the ply number and other aesthetic quality metrics for a graph layout, such as stress, edge-length uniformity, and edge crossings. We also investigate the performance of several graph drawing algorithms in terms of ply number, and provide new insights into the theoretical gap between lower and upper bounds on the ply number of $$k$$-ary trees.

### MSC:

 05C62 Graph representations (geometric and intersection representations, etc.) 05C85 Graph algorithms (graph-theoretic aspects)

### Keywords:

ply number of a drawing; graph drawing algorithms

### Software:

NetworkX; Gephi; OGDF; Ply
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