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  1. Documentation
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  3. circo

circo

Circular layout, after Six and Tollis 199912, Kauffman and Wiese 20023.

This is suitable for certain diagrams of multiple cyclic structures, such as certain telecommunications networks.

PDF Manual


  1. Six J.M., Tollis I.G. (1999) A Framework for Circular Drawings of Networks. In: Kratochvíyl J. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1731. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. ↩︎

  2. Six J.M., Tollis I.G. (1999) Circular Drawings of Biconnected Graphs. In: Goodrich M.T., McGeoch C.C. (eds) Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation. ALENEX 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1619. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. ↩︎

  3. Michael Kaufmann, Roland Wiese (2002) Embedding Vertices at Points: Few Bends suffice for Planar Graphs. In: Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 115–129 ↩︎

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