Posterizing Diagrams with Top-Down Layout

Maximilian Kasperowski, Reinhard von Hanxleden

2025

Abstract

Diagrams serve as a communication tool and automatic graph drawing enables the creation of diagramming tools that allow seamless graph modeling and visualization. These tools typically have the goal of optimizing the produced diagrams for computer screens, which support zooming in and out of diagrams and further interaction techniques. In this paper, we consider what automatic graph drawing needs to provide to produce diagrams suitable for printing instead, where we can no longer zoom and are restricted to a fixed area. We identify key differences in the requirements between printed static diagrams and interactive on-screen diagrams, including layout speed and layout area. Our goal is to automatically draw a complex diagram to be printed on a large poster, with maximal readability. We propose a collection of refinements to the well-established Sugiyama algorithm and illustrate our approach with a large SCChart that implements a railway controller.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kasperowski M. and von Hanxleden R. (2025). Posterizing Diagrams with Top-Down Layout. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 930-937. DOI: 10.5220/0013299200003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ivapp25,
author={Maximilian Kasperowski and Reinhard von Hanxleden},
title={Posterizing Diagrams with Top-Down Layout},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP},
year={2025},
pages={930-937},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013299200003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IVAPP
TI - Posterizing Diagrams with Top-Down Layout
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - Kasperowski M.
AU - von Hanxleden R.
PY - 2025
SP - 930
EP - 937
DO - 10.5220/0013299200003912
PB - SciTePress