Experimental Analysis of the Accessibility of Drawings with Few Segments

@article{Kindermann2017ExperimentalAO,
title={Experimental Analysis of the Accessibility of Drawings with Few Segments},
author={Philipp Kindermann and Wouter Meulemans and Andr{\'e} Schulz},
journal={ArXiv},
year={2017},
volume={abs/1708.09815}
}
• Published 31 August 2017
• Computer Science
• ArXiv
The visual complexity of a graph drawing is defined as the number of geometric objects needed to represent all its edges. In particular, one object may represent multiple edges, e.g., one needs only one line segment to draw two collinear incident edges. We study the question if drawings with few segments have a better aesthetic appeal and help the user to asses the underlying graph. We design an experiment that investigates two different graph types (trees and sparse graphs), three different…
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