Results

All the results are summarized in the Graph Drawing Contest Report 2025:

Creative Topics

This year, there was a single creative topic: Dark, the Netflix tv series. Below all submissions for the given theme. More information about the graphs can be found on the Creative Topics website.

We received 12 submissions in this category. All of the submissions are listed below.

1st place

  • Florian Saß, Jakob Speitkamp and Guilherme Monteiro Oliveira - Journey of a Time Machine

2nd place

  • Bryony Miles - Dark Contest - Paradox Tree and Infinity Loop

3rd place

  • Tom Baumgartl, Luke Watkin, George Bell, Daniel Archambault, Alma Cantu and Tatiana von Landesberger - Visualizing Time Travelling, Worlds, and Quantum Variants: A Storyline-Spiral Layout of Netflix Dark

4th place (shared, displayed in no particular order)

  • Konstantina Kyriakidou, Konstantina Roussa and Christina Tsolaki - No Beginning, No End: The Eternal Return of Dark
  • Miltos Kalympas, Maria Eleni Pavlidi and Christos Tasioudis - Beyond The God Particle
  • Lin Ye, Melanie Baur and Michael Krone - Visualizing Jonas’s Life in Dark on a 360° Display

6th to 12th place (displayed in no particular order)

  • Antoine Origer and Ali Kömürcü - Rewinding & Entangling: A Time-Swimlane Graph of Dark
  • Katharina Hoeckner, Aya Wahbi and Branislav Balvan - Chronospheres: A Temporal Anatomy of Dark’s Time Travels
  • Lennart Petersen and Isabelle Maye - Dark 360 Graph
  • Hanna Kienast, Kateryna Ponomarenko and Milica Aleksic - Visualization of Dark Series Story
  • Andre Reißig, Suriija Varatharajah, Fabian Beng, Rebecca Ebert, Moritz Weck, Julian Mühlenhaupt and Dennis Hein - GDC 2025 Creative Topic Dark - Jonas Evolution To Adam