13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

Adaptive Grid-Like Layout

Contributors: 
Steve Kieffer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Michael Wybrow
Description
We explore various techniques to incorporate grid-like layout conventions into a force-directed, constraint-based graph layout framework. In doing so we are able to provide high-quality layout---with predominantly axis-aligned edges---that is more flexible than previous grid-like layout methods and which can capture layout conventions in notations such as SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation). Furthermore, the layout is easily able to respect user-defined constraints and adapt to interaction in online systems and diagram editors such as Dunnart. Interactive use of our techniques is demonstrated at \\url{http://youtu.be/b7nV8dvAlIc}.