Toposcope:

Automatic visualization of the topology of 2D cell complexes

Researchers:

• Jorge Stolfi
• Rober Marcone Rosi
• C. F. Xavier de Mendonça
• L. P. Lozada

Project description

The goal of this project is to automatically produce a "nice" picture of a given two-dimensional cellular complex, a purely topological description of a graph drawn on a surface.

More details

Main publications:

• Automatic visualization of two-dimensional cellular complexes. Cândido F. X. de Mendonça, L. P. Lozada, Rober M. Rosi, and J. Stolfi. To appear in Proceedings of Graph Drawing '96, Berkeley, Calif; September 1996. [ros-sto-96-vis]
  Postscript/gzip 492KB
• Automatic visualization of two-dimensional cellular complexes. Rober M. Rosi and J. Stolfi. Technical report IC-96-02, Institute of Computing, University of Campinas; May 1996. [ros-sto-96-vistr]
  Postscript/gzip, 36 pages, 842KB
• Visualização Automática de Complexos Celulares Bidimensionais Rober Marcone Rosi. Master thesis, Computer Science Department (DCC-IMECC), University of Campinas; December 1995. [ros-95-thesis]
  Postscript/gzip 1133KB

Additional publications (superseded by the above):

• Visualização automática de complexos celulares arbitrários. Rober M. Rosi and J. Stolfi. Anais do XXI Seminário Integrado de Hardware e Software (SEMISH'94), 85--98. Caxambú, MG, Brasil; August 1994. [ros-sto-94-vis]
  Postscript/gzip, 14 pages, 150KB

Source files:

The Toposcope tool is currently implemented as a collection of separate Modula-3 programs.

• The README file, that explains what the programs do;
• The directory tree with all sources.
• A single archive with all the sources [Unix tar/gzip, 177KB].
• A single archive with precompiled binaries for Sun SPARC under Solaris 5.5 [tar/gzip, 2766KB].