Ask HN: Dense Tree Layout Algorithms
5 by bwestergard | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I recently bought a poster which features a really beautiful rendering of a phylogenetic tree of the world's bird families (a rooted binary tree). https://ift.tt/S9Tx57s I am sure it was carefully designed by hand. What algorithms could automatically generate a layout like this? The graphviz layout algorithms are poorly suited to the problem because they cannot seem to avoid edge/node coincidence beyond a certain node density.