Triangulating polygons without large angles

  • Authors:
  • Marshall Bern;David Dobkin;David Eppstein

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

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

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Abstract

We show how to triangulate an n-vertex polygonal region—adding extra vertices as necessary—with triangles of guaranteed quality. Using only O(n) triangles, we can guarantee that the smallest height (shortest dimension) of a triangle is approximately as large as possible. Using O(n log n) triangles, we can also guarantee that the largest angle is no greater than 150°. Finally we give a nonobtuse triangulation algorithm for convex polygons that uses O(n1.85) triangles.