An acyclicity theorem for cell complexes in d dimensions

  • Authors:
  • H. Edelsbrunner

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois

  • Venue:
  • SCG '89 Proceedings of the fifth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Let C be a cell complex in d-dimensional Euclidean space whose faces are obtained by orthogonal projection of the faces of a convex polytope in d + 1 dimensions. For example, the Delaunay triangulation of a finite point set is such a cell complex. This paper shows that the in_front/behind relation defined for the faces of C with respect to any fixed viewpoint x is acyclic. This result has applications to hidden line/surface removal and other problems in computational geometry.