Binary space partitions for line segments with a limited number of directions

  • Authors:
  • Csaba D. Tóth

  • Affiliations:
  • Theoretical Computer Science, ETH Zürich, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SODA '02 Proceedings of the thirteenth annual ACM-SIAM symposium on Discrete algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

This paper considers binary space partitions (BSP) for n disjoint line segments in the plane. It is known that there is a BSP of size at most O(n log n), in general, and the smallest BSP can be as big as Ω(n log n/log log n) in the worst case. It is shown that there exists a BSP of size O(kn) if the line segments have at most k different orientations. No linear upper bound was known, so far, for any fixed k 2.