On the triangle-perimeter two-site Voronoi diagram

  • Authors:
  • Iddo Hanniel;Gill Barequet

  • Affiliations:
  • SolidWorks Corp., Concord, MA and Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology;Dept. of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, MA and Center for Graphics and Geometric Computing, Dept. of Computer Science, The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on computational science IX
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The triangle-perimeter 2-site distance function defines the "distance" from a point x to two other points p, q as the perimeter of the triangle whose vertices are x, p, q. Accordingly, given a set S of n points in the plane, the Voronoi diagram of S with respect to the triangleperimeter distance, is the subdivision of the plane into regions, where the region of the pair p, q ∈ S is the locus of all points closer to p, q (according to the triangle-perimeter distance) than to any other pair of sites in S. In this paper we prove a theorem about the perimeters of triangles, two of whose vertices are on a given circle. We use this theorem to show that the combinatorial complexity of the triangle-perimeter 2- site Voronoi diagram is O(n2+ε) (for any ε 0). Consequently, we show that one can compute the diagram in O(n2+ε) time and space.