Pointed binary encompassing trees: Simple and optimal

  • Authors:
  • Michael Hoffmann;Bettina Speckmann;Csaba D. Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

For n disjoint line segments in the plane we construct in optimal O(nlogn) time and linear space an encompassing tree of maximum degree three such that at every vertex v all edges of the tree that are incident to v lie in a halfplane bounded by the line through the input segment which v is an endpoint of. In particular, this tree is pointed since every vertex has an incident angle greater than @p. Such a pointed binary tree can be augmented to a minimum pseudo-triangulation. It follows that every set of disjoint line segments in the plane has a constrained minimum pseudo-triangulation whose maximum vertex degree is bounded by a constant.