Graph drawing algorithms based on minimizing the so-called stress energy strive to place nodes in accordance with target distances. They were first introduced to the graph drawing field by Kamada and Kawai, and they had previously been used to visualize general kinds of data by multidimensional scaling. In this paper we suggest a novel algorithm for the minimization of the Stress energy. Unlike prior stress-minimization algorithms, our algorithm is suitable for a one-dimensional layout, where one axis of the drawing is already given and an additional axis needs to be computed. This 1 - D drawing capability of the algorithm is a consequence of replacing the traditional node-by-node optimization with a more global axis-by-axis optimization. Moreover, our algorithm can be used for multidimensional graph drawing, where it has time and space complexity advantages compared with other stress minimization algorithms.
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