Automatic layout is an option in
graph drawing
Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graph (discrete mathematics), graphs arising from applications such a ...
toolkits that allow to lay out the
Graph according to specific rules, such as:
*reducing the length of the arcs between the Graph
vertices
*reduce the number of edges crossing (to improve the graph readability)
See also
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Methods in graph drawing
Graph drawing
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