Call for participation

The 32nd Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction with the 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025).

The contest has two parts: the Creative Topic and the Live Challenge.

Creative Topic

The creative topic is provided months in advance and focuses on free-form visualization of a specific graph. Participants are invited to submit a creative drawing of this graph that evokes exploration and understanding the graph. The submissions will be judged by the contest committee. This year’s topic is Dark, the netflix series about time traveling, for a special spin on dynamic graphs!

Read the details on the Creative Topic

Live Challenge

The live challenge will be held during the conforence in a format similar to a typical programming contest, where teams are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings (either created manually, or automatically). This year the challenge will focus on minimizing the local crossing number.

Read the details on the Live Challenge

Awards

Awards will be given to the top submissions in each of the contests — the award constitutes a small sum of money.

Contest Committee

Sara Di Bartolomeo
(TU Wien, since 2023)

Fabian Klute
(chair, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, since 2022)

Debajyoti Mondal
(University of Saskatchewan, since 2023)

Jules Wulms
(Technical University of Eindhoven, since 2023)

Contact

gdnvcontest@gmail.com