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Recognizing Weakly Simple Polygons

Computational Geometry 2017-08-01 v2

Abstract

We present an O(nlogn)O(n\log n)-time algorithm that determines whether a given planar nn-gon is weakly simple. This improves upon an O(n2logn)O(n^2\log n)-time algorithm by Chang, Erickson, and Xu (2015). Weakly simple polygons are required as input for several geometric algorithms. As such, how to recognize simple or weakly simple polygons is a fundamental question.

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@article{arxiv.1603.07401,
  title  = {Recognizing Weakly Simple Polygons},
  author = {Hugo Akitaya and Greg Aloupis and Jeff Erickson and Csaba D. Tóth},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.07401},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

35 pages, 28 figures. A 15-page extended abstract has appeared in the Proceeding of the 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (Boston, MA, 2016)

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