抄録
Recently, it is crucial to appropriately and compactly represent huge information in various situations. The technology to improve visual recognition is well studied and called "Information Visualization". We consider visualization of a "graph" used for representing relations of items. When a graph is large and complex, the vertices and edges must be laid out adequately; otherwise, the graph becomes hard to read. In this paper, we propose a graph layout method by using curved edges based on a leaf-spring model. Our method is effective to satisfy three aesthetic criteria : moderate distribution of vertices, higher angular resolution, and less curvature of curved edges.
