Nice point sets can have nasty Delaunay triangulations

dc.creatorErickson, Jeff
dc.date2001-03-23
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:17:01Z
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dc.descriptionWe consider the complexity of Delaunay triangulations of sets of points in R^3 under certain practical geometric constraints. The spread of a set of points is the ratio between the longest and shortest pairwise distances. We show that in the worst case, the Delaunay triangulation of n points in R^3 with spread D has complexity Omega(min{D^3, nD, n^2}) and O(min{D^4, n^2}). For the case D = Theta(sqrt{n}), our lower bound construction consists of a uniform sample of a smooth convex surface with bounded curvature. We also construct a family of smooth connected surfaces such that the Delaunay triangulation of any good point sample has near-quadratic complexity.
dc.description11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Proc. SCG '01
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103017
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0103017
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/30570
dc.subjectComputational Geometry
dc.subjectF.2.2;G.2.m
dc.titleNice point sets can have nasty Delaunay triangulations
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