Towards a General Solution to Drawing Area-Proportional Euler Diagrams

AbstractWe present a deterministic algorithm for drawing Euler diagrams using n simple polygons so that the regions have a prescribed area. Our solution works for all Euler diagrams that have a region of common intersection (i.e., region {1,2,…,n}), and for any weight function. When there is no region for {1,2,…,n}, the algorithm can still be applied, but will sometimes create an Euler diagram where the curves are self-intersecting