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title: "Automatic layout"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_layout"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T11:31:00.236258+00:00"
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Automatic layout is an option in graph drawing toolkits that allow to lay out the Graph according to specific rules, such as:

reducing the length of the arcs between the Graph vertices
reduce the number of edges crossing (to improve the graph readability)


== See also ==
Methods in graph drawing


== References ==