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arXiv:1408.4626cs.OH

Stress-Minimizing Orthogonal Layout of Data Flow Diagrams with Ports

Ulf Rüegg, Steve Kieffer, Tim Dwyer, Kim Marriott, Michael Wybrow

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We present a fundamentally different approach to orthogonal layout of data flow diagrams with ports. This is based on extending constrained stress majorization to cater for ports and flow layout. Because we are minimizing stress we are able to better display global structure, as measured by several criteria such as stress, edge-length variance, and aspect ratio. Compared to the layered approach, our layouts tend to exhibit symmetries, and eliminate inter-layer whitespace, making the diagrams more compact.

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