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How about if the Force Directed Edge Bundling technique is replaced by the Skeleton-based Edge Bundling technique (http://www.cs.rug.nl/svcg/Shapes/SBEB) published last year, I think it's faster and produces less clutter than the FDEB technique.
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Eduardo Gonzalo Espinoza Carreon

Interesting, however we can't compare SDEB or FDEB because they emphasis totally different things in networks (see Fig 7). The research papers does not detail how to interpret the visual output - which largely reduces the interest of the contribution. But they seems at least to be clear on this point:

There is no fundamental reason why a skeleton-based layout should be preferable to other bundling heuristics, apart from the intuition that a skeleton represents the local center of a shape. Hence, the quality of our layouts (or any other bundled layout) is still to be judged subjectively.

Hence I consider this technique a something totally new, and how to use it should be studied before considering an implementation in Gephi.