Higher-dimensional Voronoi diagrams in linear expected time

  • Authors:
  • R. A. Dwyer

  • Affiliations:
  • North Carolina State University

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

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Abstract

This work is the first to validate theoretically the suspicions of many researchers — that the “average” Voronoi diagram is combinatorially quite simple and can be constructed quickly. Specifically, assuming that dimension d is fixed, and that n input points are chosen independently from the uniform distribution on the unit d-ball, it is proved thatthe expected number of simplices of the dual of the Voronoi diagram is &THgr;(n) (exact constants are derived for the high-order term), anda relatively simple algorithm exists for constructing the Voronoi diagram in &THgr;(n) time.It is likely that the methods developed in the analysis will be applicable to other related quantities and other probability distributions.