Shortest paths on a polyhedron

  • Authors:
  • Jindong Chen;Yijie Han

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY;Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

  • Venue:
  • SCG '90 Proceedings of the sixth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

We present an algorithm for determining the shortest path between a source point and any destination point along the surface of a polyhedron (need not be convex). Our algorithm uses a new approach which deviates from the conventional “continuous Dijkstra” technique. It takes &Ogr;(n2) time and ⊖(n) space to determine the shortest path and to compute the inward layout which can be used to construct a structure for processing queries of shortest path from the source point to any destination point.