Quantitative Evaluation for Edge Bundling Based on Structural Aesthetics

Abstract

This study proposes a method to evaluate the efficiency of edge bundling. Edge bundling is important to improve visual clutter of edge visualization. However, the evaluation of edge bundling is based only on qualitative evaluations, and the evaluation cost is expensive. Therefore, this paper proposes three measurement strategies to evaluate edge bundling, namely, the edge lengths before and after edge bundling, occupation area, and edge density.