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From: wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.visualization,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Positioning of labels on graphical image
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Date: 14 Dec 90 20:23:29 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.085649.21670@qut.edu.au> inb300campbe@qut.edu.au writes:
>Has anybody had any experience with the automatic positioning of
>labels on a objects in a graphical image?

This has been  an active research area  for several years.  The earliest
work I  know of is  John  Ahn  here at  RPI,  who was PhD'ed  under Herb
Freeman,  who is  now at Rutgers.   There have been  other papers in the
cartographic conferences.  Anyone current in GIS (Geographic Information
Systems) or cartography should know of them.

Here is the RPI online library record for Ahn's thesis:

             BY:  Ahn, John K.
                  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mathematics Department.
          TITLE:  Automatic map name placement system.
        CALL NO:  THESIS 1984
       MATERIAL:  THESIS
    DESCRIPTION:  87 p.
          NOTES:  UMI abstract number 84-26,504
                  Doctor's - May, 1984

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