Three problems about dynamic convex hulls

• Authors: Timothy M. Chan
• Venue: Proceedings of the twenty-seventh annual symposium on Computational geometry
• Year: 2011

We present three results related to dynamic convex hulls: A fully dynamic data structure for maintaining a set of n points in the plane so that we can find the edges of the convex hull intersecting a query line, with expected query and amortized update time O(log1+εn) for an arbitrarily small constant ε0. This improves the previous bound of O(log3/2n). A fully dynamic data structure for maintaining a set of n points in the plane to support halfplane range reporting queries in O(log n + k) time with O(polylog, n) expected amortized update time. A similar result holds for 3-dimensional orthogonal range reporting. For 3-dimensional halfspace range reporting, the query time increases to O(log2 n/log log n + k). A semi-online dynamic data structure for maintaining a set of n line segments in the plane, so that we can decide whether a query line segment lies completely above the lower envelope, with query time O(log n) and amortized update time O(nε). As a corollary, we can solve the following problem in O(n1+ε) time: given a triangulated terrain in 3-d of size n, identify all faces that are partially visible from a fixed viewpoint.