A fast deterministic smallest enclosing disk approximation algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Frank Nielsen;Richard Nock

  • Affiliations:
  • Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc., 3-14-13 Higashi Gotanda, Shinagawa-Ku, 141-0022 Tokyo, Japan;Université des Antilles-Guyane, Campus de Schoelcher, Departement Scientifique Interfacultaire, BP 7209, Schoelcher (Martinique) 97233, France

  • Venue:
  • Information Processing Letters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We describe a simple and fast O(n log2 1/ε)-time algorithm for finding a (1 + ε)-approximation of the smallest enclosing disk of a planar set of n points or disks. Experimental results of a readily available implementation are presented.