Kinetic collision detection with fast flight plan changes

  • Authors:
  • John Hershberger

  • Affiliations:
  • Mentor Graphics Corp., 8005 SW Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, OR 97070, USA

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We show how to augment a kinetic data structure for collision detection between translating polygons with the ability to make fast flight plan changes. This allows us to update the KDS after a moving polygon changes its motion in O(logn) time, instead of the @W(n) worst-case time needed by previous kinetic data structures. The key to our approach is replacing the KDS priority queue by a dynamic convex hull that represents the certificates of the KDS.