Geodesic disks and clustering in a simple polygon

  • Authors:
  • Magdalene G. Borgelt;Marc van Kreveld;Jun Luo

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University;Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University;Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University

  • Venue:
  • ISAAC'07 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Algorithms and computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Let P be a simple polygon of n vertices and let S be a set of N points lying in the interior of P. A geodesic disk GD(p, r) with center p and radius r is the set of points in P that have a geodesic distance ≤ r from p (where the geodesic distance is the length of the shortest polygonal path connection that lies in P). In this paper we present an output sensitive algorithm for finding all N geodesic disks centered at the points of S, for a given value of r. Our algorithm runs in O((n + (kn)2/3 + k) logc n) time, for some constant c and output size k. It is the basis of a cluster reporting algorithm where geodesic distances are used.