Filtering relocations on a Delaunay triangulation

  • Authors:
  • Pedro Machado Manhães de Castro;Jane Tournois;Pierre Alliez;Olivier Devillers

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France;INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France;INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France;INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France

  • Venue:
  • SGP '09 Proceedings of the Symposium on Geometry Processing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Updating a Delaunay triangulation when its vertices move is a bottleneck in several domains of application. Rebuilding the whole triangulation from scratch is surprisingly a very viable option compared to relocating the vertices. This can be explained by several recent advances in efficient construction of Delaunay triangulations. However, when all points move with a small magnitude, or when only a fraction of the vertices move, rebuilding is no longer the best option. This paper considers the problem of efficiently updating a Delaunay triangulation when its vertices are moving under small perturbations. The main contribution is a set of filters based upon the concept of vertex tolerances. Experiments show that filtering relocations is faster than rebuilding the whole triangulation from scratch under certain conditions.