Drawing a graph on the plane

I've got a hometask :

To make the visu开发者_Python百科alizer of planar graph embedding (or laying I don't know a correct word for this process).

Planar graph is isomorphic to plane graph, and a plane graph is a graph drawn on the plane without intersections of its edges.

I need an algorithm to do this, there is one article in Russian, the algorithm named "Gamma algorithm" is descrbed there, but I want to find some more information, and I couldn't even find anything about "Gamma algorithm" (in English, it seems like it has another name), nor about other algorithm in English.

Could anyone suggest the names of the algorithms and links to their descriptions?

p.s. sorry if my English is bad :)

You have some answers on Planar Graph Layouts

I've stumbled across the algorithm i've been searching for — according to http://www.cs.brown.edu/~rt/gdhandbook/chapters/planarity.pdf it is Auslander and Parter ,or Goldstein cycle-based algorithm.