Approximating the pathway axis and the persistence diagram of a collection of balls in 3-space

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 260-269

  Yaffe, Eitan ^a   Halperin, Dan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alpha complex; Medial axis; Molecular modeling; Persistence diagram

Indexed keywords

PAPER; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SPHERES; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOPOLOGY;

ALPHA COMPLEX; APPROXIMATION SCHEMES; DIMENSIONAL SPACES; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; GROWTH PROCESSES; HAUSDORFF DISTANCES; MEDIAL AXIS; PERSISTENCE DIAGRAM; TOPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TOPOLOGICAL FEATURES; UNIT BALLS; VORONOI DIAGRAMS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 57349101676     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1377676.1377722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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