The expected running time of hierarchical collision detection

  • Authors:
  • Jan Klein;Gabriel Zachmann

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Paderborn;Clausthal University

  • Venue:
  • SIGGRAPH '05 ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Posters
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a model to analyze the expected running time of hierarchical collision detection that utilizes bounding volume hierarchies (BVHs). It depends on two characteristic parameters: the overlap of the root BVs and the BV diminishing factor within the hierarchies. We show that the average running time is in O(n) or even in O(log n) for realistic cases, where n is the number of leaves. Our theoretical analysis is verified by practical experiments.