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> > I keep seeing mentions of this legendary router. I have been these
> > gEDA lists +10 years but I don't remember it. What was the big
> > appeal if it?  
> 
> It's a non-orthogonal router with good performance metrics.  The
> description is academic but it looks not too hard to add keep-out
> areas, additional costs to the cost functions, etc.  I don't know how
> far Stefan ever got with those real-life
> features.  I've lost the paper its based on but it was fairly
> readable.

See PCB's toporouter.c file, it mentions five publications.

Here is Stefan's reimplementation using Ruby, including images:
http://www.ssalewski.de/Router.html.en

 Bas
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