Computing Voronoi skeletons of a 3-D polyhedron by space subdivision

Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 87-120

  Etzion, Michal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Medial axis of a polyhedron; Voronoi diagram; Voronoi diagram of a polyhedron; Voronoi graph

Indexed keywords

EID: 31244432298     PISSN: 09257721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-7721(01)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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