Voronoi diagram and medial axis algorithm for planar domains with curved boundaries - II: Detailed algorithm description

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 253-277

  Ramamurthy, Rajesh ^a   Farouki, Rida T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation points; Bisectors; Distance functions; Medial axis; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; DATA STRUCTURES;

VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 0033078432     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(98)00223-4     Document Type: Article

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