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Arithmetic automata recognize infinite words of digits denoting decompositions of real and integer vectors. These automata are known expressive and efficient enough to represent the whole set of solutions of complex linear constraints…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-11 Jérôme Leroux

Constant workspace algorithms use a constant number of words in addition to the read-only input to the algorithm. In this paper, we devise algorithms to efficiently compute relative hulls in the plane using a constant workspace.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Himanshu Chhabra , R. Inkulu

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

The integer hull of a polyhedron is the convex hull of the integer points contained in it. We show that the vertices of the integer hulls of a rational family of polyhedra of size O(n) have quasipolynomial coordinates. As a corollary, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-17 Danny Calegari , Alden Walker

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

This study presents a novel algorithm for identifying the set of extreme points that constitute the exact convex hull of a point set in high-dimensional Euclidean space. The proposed method iteratively solves a sequence of dynamically…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qianwei Zhuang

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

The geometric kernel (or simply the kernel) of a polyhedron is the set of points from which the whole polyhedron is visible. Whilst the computation of the kernel for a polygon has been largely addressed in the literature, fewer methods have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Tommaso Sorgente , Silvia Biasotti , Michela Spagnuolo

We present a convex hull algorithm that is accelerated on commodity graphics hardware. We analyze and identify the hurdles of writing a recursive divide and conquer algorithm on the GPU and divise a framework for representing this class of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Stanley Tzeng , John D. Owens

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 a polytope $P$ be defined by a system $A x \leq b$. We consider the problem of counting the number of integer points inside $P$, assuming that $P$ is $\Delta$-modular, where the polytope $P$ is called $\Delta$-modular if all the rank…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-05-09 D. V. Gribanov , D. S. Malyshev

We provide a polynomial time cutting plane algorithm based on split cuts to solve integer programs in the plane. We also prove that the split closure of a polyhedron in the plane has polynomial size.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Amitabh Basu , Michele Conforti , Marco Di Summa , Hongyi Jiang

Suppose $<A_i, \vec{c}_i>$ are planar (convex) H-polyhedra, that is, $A_i \in \mathbb{R}^{n_i \times 2}$ and $\vec{c}_i \in \mathbb{R}^{n_i}$. Let $P_i = \{\vec{x} \in \mathbb{R}^2 \mid A_i\vec{x} \leq \vec{c}_i \}$ and $n = n_1 + n_2$. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Axel Simon , Andy King

Seeking the convex hull of an object is a very fundamental problem arising from various tasks. In this work, we propose two variational convex hull models using level set representation for 2-dimensional data. The first one is an exact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Lingfeng Li , Shousheng Luo , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jiang Yang

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

We are interested in the fast computation of the exact value of integrals of polynomial functions over convex polyhedra. We present speed ups and extensions of the algorithms presented in previous work. We present the new software…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-12-30 Jesus De Loera , Brandon Dutra , Matthias Koeppe , Stanislav Moreinis , Gregory Pinto , Jianqiu Wu

We analyze the correctness of an O(n log n) time divide-and-conquer algorithm for the convex hull problem when each input point is a location determined by a normal distribution. We show that the algorithm finds the convex hull of such…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-08-08 F. Betul Atalay , Sorelle A. Friedler , Dianna Xu

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 article describes a method to compute successive convex approximations of the convex hull of a set of points in R^n that are the solutions to a system of polynomial equations over the reals. The method relies on sums of squares of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-07-27 João Gouveia , Rekha R. Thomas

A special homotopy continuation method, as a combination of the polyhedral homotopy and the linear product homotopy, is proposed for computing all the isolated solutions to a special class of polynomial systems. The root number bound of…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2017-04-27 Yu Wang , Wenyuan Wu , Bican Xia