On growing connected β-skeletons

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Adamatzky

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A @b-skeleton, @b=1, is a planar proximity undirected graph of a Euclidean points set, where nodes are connected by an edge if their lune-based neighbourhood contains no other points of the given set. Parameter @b determines the size and shape of the lune-based neighbourhood. A @b-skeleton of a random planar set is usually a disconnected graph for @b2. With the increase of @b, the number of edges in the @b-skeleton of a random graph decreases. We show how to grow stable @b-skeletons, which are connected for any given value of @b and characterise morphological transformations of the skeletons governed by @b and a degree of approximation. We speculate how the results obtained can be applied in biology and chemistry.