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One of the important issues of diagrams is their aesthetics. In this paper a method of its formalization for freehand drawn flowcharts is proposed. In order to formalize the evaluation of flowcharts’ aesthetics a criterion consisting of several measures is proposed. Based on this criterion the algorithms for automatic optimization of flowcharts’ appearance are proposed.
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Szwoch, W. (2008). Aestheticization of Flowcharts. In: Stapleton, G., Howse, J., Lee, J. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_54
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