octilinear

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Adjective

octilinear (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Composed of horizontal, vertical and/or diagonal (45 degrees) line segments only
    • 2015, Michael A. Bekos, Michael Kaufmann, Robert Krug, “On the Total Number of Bends for Planar Octilinear Drawings”, in arXiv:
      As the problem of finding planar octilinear drawings of minimum number of bends is NP-hard, in this paper we focus on upper and lower bounds.

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