Dynamic Planar Convex Hull Operations in Near-Logarithmic Amortized Time

  • Authors:
  • Timothy M. Chan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '99 Proceedings of the 40th Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We give a data structure that allows arbitrary insertions and deletions on a planar point set P and supports basic queries on the convex hull of P, such as membership and tangent-finding. Updates take O(log{1+eps}n) amortized time and queries take O(log n) time each, where n is the maximum size of P and eps is any fixed positive constant. For some advanced queries such as bridge-finding, both our bounds increase to O(log{3/2}n). The only previous fully dynamic solution was by Overmars and van Leeuwen from 1981 and required O(log2 n) time per update.