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This is a survey on methods to construct a three-dimensional convex polytope with a given combinatorial structure, that is, with the edges forming a given 3-connected planar graph, focusing on efforts to achieve small integer coordinates.
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Rote, G. (2012). Realizing Planar Graphs as Convex Polytopes. In: van Kreveld, M., Speckmann, B. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25878-7_23
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