Fat triangles determine linearly many holes

  • Authors:
  • Jiří Matoušek;Nathaly Miller;Micha Sharir;Shmuel Sifrony;János Pach;Emo Welzl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SFCS '91 Proceedings of the 32nd annual symposium on Foundations of computer science
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

It is shown that for every fixed delta 0 the following holds: if F is a union of n triangles, all of whose angles are at least delta , then the complement of F has O(n) connected components, and the boundary of F consists of O(n log log n) segments. This latter complexity becomes linear if all triangles are of roughly the same size or if they are all infinite wedges. A randomized algorithm that computes F in expected time O(n2/sup alpha (n)/ log n) is given. Several applications of these results are presented.