How to generate a graph:

There are two ways to generate the original graph. You can draw the graph on the left canvas or you can click Graph - Create Graph on the navigation bar.

You can edit the layout of the graph by clicking the Actions - Barycentric Layouter option on the navigation bar.

Metaphoric Map:

You can use any of the two algorithms we implemented by clicking on the respective button on the Action dropdown after drawing your graph.

Remember: MS-Algorithm and Our Algorithm require planar biconnected graphs.

You can change the parameters of Our Algorithm by clicking Actions - Algorithm Settings on the navigation bar. Default parameters are set to reflect those we used in our experiments.

Metrics:

You can get the Metrics of the Metaphoric Maps you have created by clicking on Metrics. You can also see the Cartographic Error as a shade of green and red by clicking on Color Map.