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We show that every plane graph admits a planar straight-line drawing in which all faces with more than three vertices are non-convex polygons.
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Di Battista, G., Frati, F., Patrignani, M. (2009). Non-convex Representations of Graphs. In: Tollis, I.G., Patrignani, M. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00219-9_38
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