Voronoi diagram for convex polygonal sites with convex polygon-offset distance function

Gill Barequet, Minati De

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Abstract

The concept of convex polygon-offset distance function was introduced in 2001 by Barequet, Dickerson, and Goodrich. Using this notion of point-to-point distance, they showed how to compute the corresponding nearest- and farthest-site Voronoi diagram for a set of points. In this paper we generalize the polygon-offset distance function to be from a point to any convex object with respect to an m-sided convex polygon, and study the nearest- and farthest-site Voronoi diagrams for sets of line segments and convex polygons. We show that the combinatorial complexity of the nearest-site Voronoi diagram of n disjoint line segments is O(nm), which is asymptotically equal to that of the Voronoi diagram of n point sites with respect to the same distance function. In addition, we generalize this result to the Voronoi diagram of disjoint convex polygonal sites. We show that the combinatorial complexity of the nearest-site Voronoi diagram of n convex polygonal sites, each having at most k sides, is O(n(m + k)). Finally, we show that the corresponding farthest-site Voronoi diagram is a tree-like structure with the same combinatorial complexity.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics - 3rd International Conference, CALDAM 2017, Proceedings
EditorsN.S. Narayanaswamy, Daya Gaur
Pages24-36
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017
Event3rd International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2017 - Pilani, India
Duration: 16 Feb 201718 Feb 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10156 LNCS

Conference

Conference3rd International Conference on Algorithms and Discrete Applied Mathematics, CALDAM 2017
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityPilani
Period16/02/1718/02/17

Keywords

  • Convex polygonal sites
  • Farthest-site voroni diagram
  • Line segments
  • Nearest-site voroni diagram
  • Polygon-offset distance function

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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