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We study balanced circle packings and circle-contact representations for planar graphs, where the ratio of the largest circle’s diameter to the smallest circle’s diameter is polynomial in the number of circles. We provide a number of positive and negative results for the existence of such balanced configurations.
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Alam, M.J., Eppstein, D., Goodrich, M.T., Kobourov, S.G., Pupyrev, S. (2014). Balanced Circle Packings for Planar Graphs. In: Duncan, C., Symvonis, A. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8871. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45803-7_11
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