We consider the problem of drawing a graph where edges are represented by smooth curves between the associated nodes. Previously curved edges were drawn as splines defined by carefully calculated control points. We present a completely different approach where finding an edge is reduced to solving a differential equation. This approach allows to represent the graph drawing aesthetics directly, even the most complex ones denoting the dependencies among the paths.
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Curved Edge Routing
K. Freivalds, Proc. of the Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory 2001, LNCS vol. 2138.