Numerical stability of algorithms for 2D Delaunay triangulations

  • Authors:
  • Steven Fortune

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SCG '92 Proceedings of the eighth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

We show that two Delaunay triangulation algorithms, a diagonal-flipping algorithm and an incremental algorithm, can be implemented in approxiamte arithmetic. The two algorithms have worst-case running time O(n2) on a set of n sites. The correctness assertion is that the algorithms produce a triangulation of the set of sites so that each triangle has an “almost empty” circumcircle, i.e., a circumscribing pseudocircle slightly contracted from the circumcircle contains no sites in its interior.