Boris Denev and „The Drawing Lessons in Primary Schools“

After the Liberation, education in Bulgaria became the work of the Ministry of Education, which at that time determined the cultural and educational policy of the society. At the beginning of the twentieth century the different education of teachers in Bulgaria, the lack of experience and traditions in the teaching of drawing, lead to the use of almost all methods known from the geometric copying system and the experience of foreign countries such as drawing on a grid, drawing on stigmographed sheets, drawing on “templates”, drawing on patterns, drawing on dictation, in tact and others. In this method, at the process of learning the student is required to accurately reproduce a certain image (decorative composition, abstract geometric shapes or real objects). The means and ways of copying are determined by the gradual development of the methodology, by the emergence of new pedagogical views and requirements to the learning process. Some of the most zealous opponents of the geometric-copying system in our country are Otto Horeyshi, Dimitar Daskalov, Dobri Hristov, Stoyan Chakarov, Konstantin Svrakov, teachers Georgi Palashev, Ivan Strelukhov, Boris Denev, Atanas Chesmedjiev, Petar Angelov and many others. United in their opposition of outdated and stereotyped teaching methods, however, their views differ on the future of art education and the drawing as a subject of teaching. At the beginning of the century Boris Denev became popular with his reformist ideas related to the creative nature of art education. Based on his experience as a primary school teacher, he was the first in Bulgaria who bring out aesthetic education as the main goal of art teaching.

CONVEX DRAWINGS OF INTERNALLY TRICONNECTED PLANE GRAPHS ON O(n2) GRIDS

In a convex grid drawing of a plane graph, every edge is drawn as a straight-line segment without any edge-intersection, every vertex is located at a grid point, and every facial cycle is drawn as a convex polygon. A plane graph G has a convex drawing if and only if G is internally triconnected. It has been known that an internally triconnected plane graph G of n vertices has a convex grid drawing on a grid of O(n3) area if the triconnected component decomposition tree of G has at most four leaves. In this paper, we improve the area bound O(n3) to O(n2), which is optimal up to a constant factor. More precisely, we show that G has a convex grid drawing on a 2n × 4n grid. We also present an algorithm to find such a drawing in linear time.

Lower Bounds on the Area Requirements of Series-Parallel Graphs

Graphs and Algorithms International audience We show that there exist series-parallel graphs requiring Omega(n2(root log n)) area in any straight-line or poly-line grid drawing. Such a result is achieved in two steps. First, we show that, in any straight-line or poly-line drawing of K(2,n), one side of the bounding box has length Omega(n), thus answering two questions posed by Biedl et al. Second, we show a family of series-parallel graphs requiring Omega(2(root log n)) width and Omega(2(root log n)) height in any straight-line or poly-line grid drawing. Combining the two results, the Omega(n2(root log n)) area lower bound is achieved.

ON OPEN RECTANGLE-OF-INFLUENCE AND RECTANGULAR DUAL DRAWINGS OF PLANE GRAPHS

Irreducible triangulations are plane graphs with a quadrangular exterior face, triangular interior faces and no separating triangles. Fusy proposed a straight-line grid drawing algorithm for irreducible triangulations, whose grid size is asymptotically with high probability 11n/27 × 11n/27 up to an additive error of [Formula: see text]. Later on, Fusy generalized the idea to quadrangulations and obtained a straight-line grid drawing, whose grid size is asymptotically with high probability 13n/27 × 13n/27 up to an additive error of [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we first prove that the above two straight-line grid drawing algorithms for irreducible triangulations and quadrangulations actually produce open rectangle-of-influence drawings for them respectively. Therefore, the above mentioned straight-line grid drawing size bounds also hold for the open rectangle-of-influence drawings. These results improve previous known drawing sizes. In the second part of the paper, we present another application of the results obtained by Fusy. We present a linear time algorithm for constructing a rectangular dual for a randomly generated irreducible triangulation with n vertices, one of its dimensions equals [Formula: see text] asymptotically with high probability, up to an additive error of [Formula: see text]. In addition, we prove that the one dimension tight bound for a rectangular dual of any irreducible triangulations with n vertices is (n + 1)/2.

CONVEX GRID DRAWINGS OF FOUR-CONNECTED PLANE GRAPHS

A convex grid drawing of a plane graph G is a drawing of G on the plane such that all vertices of G are put on grid points, all edges are drawn as straight-line segments without any edge-intersection, and every face boundary is a convex polygon. In this paper we give a linear-time algorithm for finding a convex grid drawing of every 4-connected plane graph G with four or more vertices on the outer face. The size of the drawing satisfies W + H ≤ n - 1, where n is the number of vertices of G, W is the width and H is the height of the grid drawing. Thus the area W · H is at most ⌈(n - 1)/2⌉ · ⌊(n - 1)/2⌋. Our bounds on the sizes are optimal in a sense that there exist an infinite number of 4-connected plane graphs whose convex drawings need grids such that W + H = n - 1 and W · H = ⌈(n - 1)/2⌉ · ⌊(n - 1)/2⌋.

CANONICAL DECOMPOSITION, REALIZER, SCHNYDER LABELING AND ORDERLY SPANNING TREES OF PLANE GRAPHS

A canonical decomposition, a realizer, a Schnyder labeling and an orderly spanning tree of a plane graph play an important role in straight-line grid drawings, convex grid drawings, floor-plannings, graph encoding, etc. It is known that the triconnectivity is a sufficient condition for their existence, but no necessary and sufficient condition has been known. In this paper, we present a necessary and sufficient condition for their existence, and show that a canonical decomposition, a realizer, a Schnyder labeling, an orderly spanning tree, and an outer triangular convex grid drawing are notions equivalent with each other. We also show that they can be found in linear time whenever a plane graph satisfies the condition.

Stacks, Queues and Tracks: Layouts of Graph Subdivisions

International audience A \emphk-stack layout (respectively, \emphk-queuelayout) of a graph consists of a total order of the vertices, and a partition of the edges into k sets of non-crossing (non-nested) edges with respect to the vertex ordering. A \emphk-track layout of a graph consists of a vertex k-colouring, and a total order of each vertex colour class, such that between each pair of colour classes no two edges cross. The \emphstack-number (respectively, \emphqueue-number, \emphtrack-number) of a graph G, denoted by sn(G) (qn(G), tn(G)), is the minimum k such that G has a k-stack (k-queue, k-track) layout.\par This paper studies stack, queue, and track layouts of graph subdivisions. It is known that every graph has a 3-stack subdivision. The best known upper bound on the number of division vertices per edge in a 3-stack subdivision of an n-vertex graph G is improved from O(log n) to O(log min\sn(G),qn(G)\). This result reduces the question of whether queue-number is bounded by stack-number to whether 3-stack graphs have bounded queue number.\par It is proved that every graph has a 2-queue subdivision, a 4-track subdivision, and a mixed 1-stack 1-queue subdivision. All these values are optimal for every non-planar graph. In addition, we characterise those graphs with k-stack, k-queue, and k-track subdivisions, for all values of k. The number of division vertices per edge in the case of 2-queue and 4-track subdivisions, namely O(log qn(G)), is optimal to within a constant factor, for every graph G. \par Applications to 3D polyline grid drawings are presented. For example, it is proved that every graph G has a 3D polyline grid drawing with the vertices on a rectangular prism, and with O(log qn(G)) bends per edge. Finally, we establish a tight relationship between queue layouts and so-called 2-track thickness of bipartite graphs. \par