Overlap of convex polytopes under rigid motion

  • Authors:
  • Hee-Kap Ahn;Siu-Wing Cheng;Hyuk Jun Kweon;Juyoung Yon

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, POSTECH, Republic of Korea;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HKUST, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We present an algorithm to compute a rigid motion that approximately maximizes the volume of the intersection of two convex polytopes P"1 and P"2 in R^3. For all @e@?(0,1/2] and for all n=1/@e, our algorithm runs in O(@e^-^3nlog^3^.^5n) time with probability 1-n^-^O^(^1^). The volume of the intersection guaranteed by the output rigid motion is a (1-@e)-approximation of the optimum, provided that the optimum is at least @l@?max{|P"1|,|P"2|} for some given constant @l@?(0,1].