Redraw n=21 witness figures as crossing-free planar graphs

Replace the radial (crossing-heavy) figure with two crossing-free planar
drawings (networkx planar_layout / Chrobak-Payne):
  fig:n21-elgs  -- the six witness Even Level Graphs, parity-coloured, with
                   the bridge-switch-flipped edges dashed red;
  fig:n21-duals -- the six resulting duals, with the introduced bridge edges
                   solid green.
ELG and dual are drawn with independent planar layouts so neither has any
edge crossing (a flip diagonal would otherwise cross other edges when its
quadrilateral is non-convex, which happens for duals 0 and 3). Drop forced
equal aspect so panels fill and labels separate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/n21_witnesses.png}
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/n21_elgs.png}
\caption{The witness Even Level Graph for each of the six Holton--McKay
duals, drawn radially by level (source at the centre, level-$k$ vertices on
ring $k$) and coloured by parity (blue even, orange odd). Dashed red edges
are the same-parity edges flipped by the bridge switches; solid green edges
are the bridge edges they introduce; applying the switches turns each Even
Level Graph into the corresponding dual. Duals $1$ and $2$ are Even Level
Graphs outright, so no switch is shown.}
\label{fig:n21-witnesses}
duals, drawn as a crossing-free planar graph and coloured by parity (blue
even, orange odd, with respect to the fixed level-parity labelling). The
dashed red edges are the same-parity edges that the bridge switches flip;
flipping them yields the corresponding dual in
Figure~\ref{fig:n21-duals}. Duals $1$ and $2$ are Even Level Graphs
outright, so no edge is flipped.}
\label{fig:n21-elgs}
\end{figure}
\begin{figure}[ht]
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{figures/n21_duals.png}
\caption{The six Holton--McKay duals, drawn as crossing-free planar graphs
with the same parity colouring. The solid green edges are the bridge edges
introduced by the switches from the Even Level Graphs of
Figure~\ref{fig:n21-elgs}. Each green edge is a bridge of its parity
subgraph, so no new cycle -- and in particular no odd cycle -- is created;
duals $1$ and $2$ coincide with their Even Level Graphs and have no added
edge.}
\label{fig:n21-duals}
\end{figure}
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