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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

In this paper we study the statistical properties of convex hulls of $N$ random points in a plane chosen according to a given distribution. The points may be chosen independently or they may be correlated. After a non-exhaustive survey of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-31 Satya N. Majumdar , Alain Comtet , Julien Randon-Furling

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

Let $P$ be a $k$-colored set of $n$ points in the plane, $4 \leq k \leq n$. We study the problem of deciding if $P$ contains a subset of four points of different colors such that its Rectilinear Convex Hull has positive area. We show this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-23 David Flores-Peñaloza , Mario A. Lopez , Nestaly Marín , David Orden

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

This paper presents a new O(nlog(n)) algorithm for computing the convex hull of a set of 3 dimensional points. The algorithm first sorts the point in (x,y,z) then incrementally adds sorted points to the convex hull using the constraint that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-02-16 David Sinclair

$\def\DD{{{\bf \delta}}}\def\CH{{\mathop{\mathrm{ConvexHull}}}}\newcommand{\LL}{{\cal {L}}} \newcommand{\ZZ}{\mathbb{Z}} $ Given a convex body $C$ in the plane, its discrete hull is $C^0 = \CH( C \cap \LL )$, where $\LL = \ZZ \times \ZZ$ is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Sariel Har-Peled

We present new iterative algorithms for solving a square linear system $Ax=b$ in dimension $n$ by employing the {\it Triangle Algorithm} \cite{kal12}, a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme for testing if the convex hull of a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Bahman Kalantari

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

Finding the coordinate-wise maxima and the convex hull of a planar point set are probably the most classic problems in computational geometry. We consider these problems in the self-improving setting. Here, we have $n$ distributions…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kenneth L. Clarkson , Wolfgang Mulzer , C. Seshadhri

We consider the problem of reporting convex hull points in an orthogonal range query in two dimensions. Formally, let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. A point lies on the convex hull of a point set $S$ if it lies on the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-24 Jatin Agarwal , Nadeem Moidu , Kishore Kothapalli , Kannan Srinathan

Let $P$ be a set of $n$ points in the plane. We compute the value of $\theta\in [0,2\pi)$ for which the rectilinear convex hull of $P$, denoted by $\mathcal{RH}_\theta(P)$, has minimum (or maximum) area in optimal $O(n\log n)$ time and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Carlos Alegría-Galicia , David Orden , Carlos Seara , Jorge Urrutia

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

We study the question of how to compute a point in the convex hull of an input set $S$ of $n$ points in ${\mathbb R}^d$ in a differentially private manner. This question, which is trivial non-privately, turns out to be quite deep when…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Haim Kaplan , Micha Sharir , Uri Stemmer

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

In this paper, we describe randomized Shellsort--a simple, randomized, data-oblivious version of the Shellsort algorithm that always runs in O(n log n) time and, as we show, succeeds in sorting any given input permutation with very high…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Michael T. Goodrich

This paper introduces a Delaunay triangulation algorithm based on the external incremental method. Unlike traditional random incremental methods, this approach uses convex hull and points as basic operational units instead of triangles.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Yifeng Cai

Computationally efficient and automated generation of convex hulls is desirable for high throughput materials discovery of thermodynamically stable multi-species crystal structures. A convex hull genetic algorithm is proposed that uses…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-04-23 Scott Donaldson , Robert A. Lawrence , Matt I. J. Probert

We consider the problem of computing the time-convex hull of a point set under the general $L_p$ metric in the presence of a straight-line highway in the plane. The traveling speed along the highway is assumed to be faster than that off the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-05-01 Bang-Sin Dai , Mong-Jen Kao , D. T. Lee

We consider the convex hull of the perturbed point process comprised of $n$ i.i.d. points, each distributed as the sum of a uniform point on the unit sphere $\S^{d-1}$ and a uniform point in the $d$-dimensional ball centered at the origin…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Pierre Calka , J. E. Yukich