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We consider the problem of dynamically maintaining the convex hull of a set $S$ of points in the plane under the following special sequence of insertions and deletions (called {\em window-sliding updates}): insert a point to the right of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haitao Wang

We consider the planar dynamic convex hull problem. In the literature, solutions exist supporting the insertion and deletion of points in poly-logarithmic time and various queries on the convex hull of the current set of points in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bruce Brewer , Gerth Stølting Brodal , Haitao Wang

The convex hull of a data set $P$ is the smallest convex set that contains $P$. In this work, we present a new data structure for convex hull, that allows for efficient dynamic updates. In a dynamic convex hull implementation, the following…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Emil Toftegaard Gæde , Inge Li Gørtz , Ivor van der Hoog , Christoffer Krogh , Eva Rotenberg

Chan [JACM, 2010] gave a data structure for maintaining the convex hull of a dynamic set of 3D points under insertions and deletions, supporting extreme-point queries. Subsequent refinements by Kaplan, Mulzer, Roditty, Seiferth, and Sharir…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Haitao Wang

In this article, we determine the amortized computational complexity of the planar dynamic convex hull problem by querying. We present a data structure that maintains a set of n points in the plane under the insertion and deletion of points…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Riko Jacob , Gerth Stølting Brodal

We present new results on a number of fundamental problems about dynamic geometric data structures: 1. We describe the first fully dynamic data structures with sublinear amortized update time for maintaining (i) the number of vertices or…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Timothy M. Chan

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers specific queries pertinent to the problem at hand. In this work, we address the fully dynamic edge orientation problem, also…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ernestine Großmann , Henrik Reinstädtler , Christian Schulz , Fabian Walliser

Convex hull data structures are fundamental in computational geometry. We study insertion-only data structures, supporting various containment and intersection queries. When $P$ is sorted by $x$- or $y$-coordinate, convex hulls can be…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Ivor van der Hoog , Henrik Reinstädtler , Eva Rotenberg

Region extraction is necessary in a wide range of applications, from object detection in autonomous driving to analysis of subcellular morphology in cell biology. There exist two main approaches: convex hull extraction, for which exact and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Kevin Christopher VanHorn , Murat Can Çobanoğlu

A (fully) dynamic graph algorithm is a data structure that supports edge insertions, edge deletions, and answers certain queries that are specific to the problem under consideration. There has been a lot of research on dynamic algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Jannick Borowitz , Ernestine Großmann , Christian Schulz

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

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

In the dynamic linear program (LP) problem, we are given an LP undergoing updates and we need to maintain an approximately optimal solution. Recently, significant attention (e.g., [Gupta et al. STOC'17; Arar et al. ICALP'18, Wajc STOC'20])…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss , Thatchaphol Saranurak

The convex hull describes the extent or shape of a set of data and is used ubiquitously in computational geometry. Common algorithms to construct the convex hull on a finite set of n points (x,y) range from O(nlogn) time to O(n) time.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-05-06 José O. Cadenas , Graham Megson

We consider the classic facility location problem in fully dynamic data streams, where elements can be both inserted and deleted. In this problem, one is interested in maintaining a stable and high quality solution throughout the data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Sayan Bhattacharya , Silvio Lattanzi , Nikos Parotsidis

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

A fundamental question in computational geometry is for a set of input points in the Euclidean space, that is subject to discrete changes (insertion/deletion of points at each time step), whether it is possible to maintain an approximate…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-22 A. Karim Abu-Affash , Sujoy Bhore , Paz Carmi

Geometric set cover is a classical problem in computational geometry, which has been extensively studied in the past. In the dynamic version of the problem, points and ranges may be inserted and deleted, and our goal is to efficiently…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Timothy M. Chan , Qizheng He , Subhash Suri , Jie Xue

We present a practically efficient algorithm for maintaining a global minimum cut in large dynamic graphs under both edge insertions and deletions. While there has been theoretical work on this problem, our algorithm is the first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Monika Henzinger , Alexander Noe , Christian Schulz

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
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