New Bounds on the Size of Optimal Meshes

  • Authors:
  • Donald R. Sheehy

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA Saclay

  • Venue:
  • Computer Graphics Forum
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The theory of optimal size meshes gives a method for analyzing the output size (number of simplices) of a Delaunay refinement mesh in terms of the integral of a sizing function over the input domain. The input points define a maximal such sizing function called the feature size. This paper presents a way to bound the feature size integral in terms of an easy to compute property of a suitable ordering of the point set. The key idea is to consider the pacing of an ordered point set, a measure of the rate of change in the feature size as points are added one at a time. In previous work, Miller et al. showed that if an ordered point set has pacing ϕ, then the number of vertices in an optimal mesh will be O(ϕdn), where d is the input dimension. We give a new analysis of this integral showing that the output size is only θ(n+nlogϕ). The new analysis tightens bounds from several previous results and provides matching lower bounds. Moreover, it precisely characterizes inputs that yield outputs of size O(n). © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (This work was partially supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number CCF-1065106, by GIGA grant ANR-09-BLAN-0331-01, and by the European project CG-Learning No. 255827.)