A study and implementation of some visibility graph algorithms

Abstract

In recent years extensive research has been done on visibility graphs. In this thesis, we study some of the visibility graph algorithms, and implement these algorithms in the graph editor - GraphPerfect - which is a part of a project headed by Dr. Jay S. Bagga of the Department of computer science at Ball State University. One of the goals of this project is to design and build a software tool to learn and work with graphs and graph algorithms.In this thesis, some properties of visibility graphs are studied in detail and implementation of some graph algorithms is given.