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In applications such as VLSI floorplanning and cartogram design, vertices of a graph are represented by geometric objects and edges are captured by contacts between those objects, which are examples of a drawing style called contact graph representations. We study the feasibility of using line segments, triangles and tetrahedra to realize point-side contact representations for a number of graph classes including oriented versions of outerplanar graphs, 2-trees and 3-trees. Our main results show that every orientation of a maximal outerplanar graph of out-degree at most two, a 2-tree of out-degree at most two, and a planar 3-tree of out-degree at most four enjoy point-side contact representations using line segments, triangles, and tetrahedra, respectively. Unlike undirected graphs for which a fairly large amount of results can be found in the literature in the study of contact representations, directed graphs remain largely unexplored, and our study advances this line of research a step further.
H.-C. Yen—Research supported in part by Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, under grant MOST 106-2221-E-002-036-MY3.
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Chan, CH., Yen, HC. (2019). Contact Representations of Directed Planar Graphs in 2D and 3D. In: Li, Y., Cardei, M., Huang, Y. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization and Applications. COCOA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11949. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36412-0_7
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