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We present a novel GPU-accelerated implementation of the QuickHull algorihtm for calculating convex hulls of planar point sets. We also describe a practical solution to demonstrate how to efficiently implement a typical Divide-and-Conquer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Jiayin Zhang , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Kunyang Zhao

We describe a pure divide-and-conquer parallel algorithm for computing 3D convex hulls. We implement that algorithm on GPU hardware, and find a significant speedup over comparable CPU implementations.

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Jeffrey M. White , Kevin A. Wortman

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Roberto Carrasco , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

The convex hull is a fundamental geometrical structure for many applications where groups of points must be enclosed or represented by a convex polygon. Although efficient sequential convex hull algorithms exist, and are constantly being…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Alan Keith , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro

Finding the convex hull is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Quickhull is a fast algorithm for finding convex hulls. In this paper, we present VQhull, a fast parallel implementation of Quickhull that exploits vector…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Thomas Koopman , Jordy Aaldering , Bernard van Gastel , Sven-Bodo Scholz

This paper presents a fast implementation of the Graham scan on the GPU. The proposed algorithm is composed of two stages: (1) two rounds of preprocessing performed on the GPU and (2) the finalization of finding the convex hull on the CPU.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-08-26 Gang Mei

This paper presents a practical GPU-accelerated convex hull algorithm and a novel Sorting-based Preprocessing Approach (SPA) for planar point sets. The proposed algorithm consists of two stages: (1) two rounds of preprocessing performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Gang Mei

In recent years, applications such as real-time simulations, autonomous systems, and video games increasingly demand the processing of complex geometric models under stringent time constraints. Traditional geometric algorithms, including…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Roberto Carrasco , Enzo Meneses , Hector Ferrada , Cristobal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

An effective strategy for accelerating the calculation of convex hulls for point sets is to filter the input points by discarding interior points. In this paper, we present such a straightforward and efficient preprocessing approach by…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Gang Mei

Writing an uncomplicated, robust, and scalable three-dimensional convex hull algorithm is challenging and problematic. This includes, coplanar and collinear issues, numerical accuracy, performance, and complexity trade-offs. While there are…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ben Kenwright

Convex hulls are fundamental objects in computational geometry. In moderate dimensions or for large numbers of vertices, computing the convex hull can be impractical due to the computational complexity of convex hull algorithms. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Robert Graham , Adam M. Oberman

This paper evaluates several improvements to the memory layout of convex hulls to improve computation times for support point queries. The support point query is a fundamental part of common collision algorithms, and the work presented…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Michael Greer

Quickhull is an algorithm for computing the convex hull of points in a plane that performs well in practice, but has poor complexity on adversarial input. In this paper we show the same holds for the numerical stability of Quickhull.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Thomas Koopman , Sven-Bodo Scholz

The present paper is concerned with a recursive algorithm as a preprocessing step to find the convex hull of $n$ random points uniformly distributed in the plane. For such a set of points, it is shown that eliminating all but $O(\log n)$ of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Mohammad Heydari , Ashkan Khalifeh

In this paper we look for the convex hull of a set using the geometric evolution by minimal curvature of a hypersurface that surrounds the set. To find the convex hull, we study the large time behavior of solutions to an obstacle problem…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-09-12 Irene Gonzálvez , Alfredo Miranda , Julio D. Rossi , Jorge Ruiz-Cases

Convex hulls are useful as tight bounding proxies for a variety of tasks including collision detection, ray intersection, and distance computation. Unfortunately, the complexity of polyhedral convex hulls grows linearly with their input. We…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alec Jacobson

Convex hulls are fundamental geometric tools used in a number of algorithms. This paper presents a fast, simple to implement and robust Smart Convex Hull (S-CH) algorithm for computing the convex hull of a set of points in E3. This…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Vaclav Skala , Zuzana Majdisova , Michal Smolik

This paper presents an alternate choice of computing the convex hulls (CHs) for planar point sets. We firstly discard the interior points and then sort the remaining vertices by x- / y- coordinates separately, and later create a group…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-09-02 Gang Mei , John C. Tipper , Nengxiong Xu

This paper proposes a GPU-accelerated optimization framework for collision avoidance problems where the controlled objects and the obstacles can be modeled as the finite union of convex polyhedra. A novel collision avoidance constraint is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zeming Wu , Zhuping Wang , Hao Zhang

This paper presents a Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) acceleration method of an iterative scheme for gas-kinetic model equations. Unlike the previous GPU parallelization of explicit kinetic schemes, this work features a fast converging…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Lianhua Zhu , Peng Wang , Songze Chen , Zhaoli Guo , Yonghao Zhang
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