>>The challenge at this point for me is to figure out a method to solve it quickly.
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>>So far I found that it works well for me to get the nodes with two branches to the outside and the nodes with 4 branches to the inside, but that's as far as I've gotten in terms of finding a method to solve it faster.
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>>Anybody else developing a "method to this madness" out there?
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>I did from level 1 to level 10 in a row by substracting vectors (placing each point at the middle of its connectors. Of course, as it gets denser, it gets more difficult to separate that, but generally speaking, it works for me, and it what cut the addictive effect.

My method is somewhere between these two - I generally try to put the simple nodes (2 branches) between their neighbors, and for others just to shorten the lines. Then it goes like... well, pretty much as if this was the final drawing made on a transparent foil, but the foil was folded a number of times, so I try to find pieces that can be "unfolded" (by dragging all their points more or less symmetrically across the fold line). When I unfold them all, I just read the score.