On the density of iterated line segment intersections

  • Authors:
  • Ansgar Grüne;Sanaz Kamali

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science I, University of Bonn, Germany;Department of Computer Science I, University of Bonn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Given S"1, a finite set of points in the plane, we define a sequence of point sets S"i as follows: With S"i already determined, let L"i be the set of all the line segments connecting pairs of points of @?"j"="1^iS"j, and let S"i"+"1 be the set of intersection points of those line segments in L"i, which cross but do not overlap. We show that with the exception of some starting configurations the set of all crossing points @?"i"="1^~S"i is dense in a particular subset of the plane with nonempty interior. This region is the intersection of all closed half planes which contain all but at most one point from S"1.