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Automatic layout

Feature of some graph drawing tools

Automatic layout is an option in graph drawing 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)
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