Graph Visualization Aesthetics

CCGraph is a computational creative system I am actively developing with 2 developers at Brigham Young University. The goal of this system is teach computers how to automatically draw better visualizations of graphs. As a computationally creative system, it is constituted by 2 main subsystems: A generator that creates visualizations of graphs based on some input graph data, and (2) an evaluator that evaluates the graphs that are generated and throws away visualizations that fail to meet specific criteria scores.

I gave the above presentation in a graduate class on computational creativity where I talk about the theory and principles behind the aesthetics of graph visualizations.

Check out the link below for examples of specific heuristics for graph visualization aesthetics derived from the theory and principles explained in the video.