On the structure of straight skeletons

  • Authors:
  • Kira Vyatkina

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on Computational Science VI
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

For a planar straight line graph G, its straight skeleton S(G) can be partitioned into two subgraphs Sc(G) and Sr(G) traced out by the convex and by the reflex vertices of the linear wavefront, respectively. By further splitting Sc(G) at the nodes, at which the reflex wavefront vertices vanish, we obtain a set of connected subgraphs M1, ..., Mk of Sc(G). We show that each Mi is a pruned medial axis for a certain convex polygon Qi closely related to G, and give an optimal algorithm for computation of all those polygons, for 1≤i≤k. Here “pruned” means that Mi can be obtained from the medial axis M(Qi) for Qi by appropriately trimming some (if any) edges of M(Qi) incident to the leaves of the latter.