The class of simple cube-curves whose MLPs cannot have vertices at grid points

  • Authors:
  • Fajie Li;Reinhard Klette

  • Affiliations:
  • CITR, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;CITR, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

  • Venue:
  • DGCI'05 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We consider simple cube-curves in the orthogonal 3D grid of cells. The union of all cells contained in such a curve (also called the tube of this curve) is a polyhedrally bounded set. The curve's length is defined to be that of the minimum-length polygonal curve (MLP) fully contained and complete in the tube of the curve. So far only one general algorithm called rubber-band algorithm was known for the approximative calculation of such a MLP. There is an open problem which is related to the design of algorithms for calculation a 3D MLP of a cube-curve: Is there a simple cube-curve such that none of the vertices of its 3D MLP is a grid vertex? This paper constructs an example of such a simple cube-curve. We also characterize this class of cube-curves.