Shortest Path Problems on a Polyhedral Surface

  • Authors:
  • Atlas F. Cook, Iv;Carola Wenk

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, 78249-0667;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, 78249-0667

  • Venue:
  • WADS '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Algorithms and Data Structures
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We develop algorithms to compute edge sequences, Voronoi diagrams, shortest path maps, the Fréchet distance, and the diameter of a polyhedral surface. Distances on the surface are measured by the length of a Euclidean shortest path. Our main result is a linear factor speedup for the computation of all shortest path edge sequences and the diameter of a convex polyhedral surface. This speedup is achieved with kinetic Voronoi diagrams. We also use the star unfolding to compute a shortest path map and the Fréchet distance of a non-convex polyhedral surface.