graph drawing is an important information visualization technique with applications in a variety of disciplines, including vlsi design, bioinformatics, geography, and social network analysis. we present a new force-directed, multi-scale algorithm for the drawing of undirected graphs, using the analogy of elastics (with an unstretched length of zero), instead of springs, resulting in a force model similar to that of tutte[65] that produces competitive results on a variety of problems.