RAC Drawings in Subcubic Area

Abstract

In this paper, we study tradeoffs between curve complexity and area of Right Angle Crossing drawings (RAC drawings), which is a challenging theoretical problem in graph drawing. Given a graph with $n$ vertices and $m$ edges, we provide a RAC drawing algorithm with curve complexity $6$ and area $O(n^{2.75})$, which takes time $O(n+m)$. Our algorithm improves the previous upper bound $O(n^3)$, by Di Giacomo et al., on the area of RAC drawings.