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Main Authors: Seemann, Carsten R., Stadler, Peter F., Hellmuth, Marc
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13040
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author Seemann, Carsten R.
Stadler, Peter F.
Hellmuth, Marc
author_facet Seemann, Carsten R.
Stadler, Peter F.
Hellmuth, Marc
contents Polygons are cycles embedded into the plane; their vertices are associated with $x$- and $y$-coordinates and the edges are straight lines. Here, we consider a set of polygons with pairwise non-overlapping interior that may touch along their boundaries. Ideas of the sweep line algorithm by Bajaj and Dey for non-touching polygons are adapted to accommodate polygons that share boundary points. The algorithms established here achieves a running time of $\mathcal{O}(n+N\log N)$, where $n$ is the total number of vertices and $N<n$ is the total number of "maximal outstretched segments" of all polygons. It is asymptotically optimal if the number of maximal outstretched segments per polygon is bounded. In particular, this is the case for convex polygons.
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spellingShingle Nesting of Touching Polygons
Seemann, Carsten R.
Stadler, Peter F.
Hellmuth, Marc
Computational Geometry
Discrete Mathematics
05C10
Polygons are cycles embedded into the plane; their vertices are associated with $x$- and $y$-coordinates and the edges are straight lines. Here, we consider a set of polygons with pairwise non-overlapping interior that may touch along their boundaries. Ideas of the sweep line algorithm by Bajaj and Dey for non-touching polygons are adapted to accommodate polygons that share boundary points. The algorithms established here achieves a running time of $\mathcal{O}(n+N\log N)$, where $n$ is the total number of vertices and $N<n$ is the total number of "maximal outstretched segments" of all polygons. It is asymptotically optimal if the number of maximal outstretched segments per polygon is bounded. In particular, this is the case for convex polygons.
title Nesting of Touching Polygons
topic Computational Geometry
Discrete Mathematics
05C10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13040