Topology-oriented incremental computation of Voronoi diagrams of circular arcs and straight-line segments

CAD Computer Aided Design

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 327-338

  Held, Martin ^a   Huber, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Circular arcs; Computation of Voronoi nodes; Experiments; Implementation; Straight line segments; Test data; Topology oriented approach; Voronoi diagram

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAR ARCS; COMPUTATION OF VORONOI NODES; IMPLEMENTATION; STRAIGHT-LINE SEGMENTS; TEST DATA; VORONOI DIAGRAM;

CAVITY RESONATORS; GRAPHIC METHODS; TEST FACILITIES; TOPOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 67349265906     PISSN: 00104485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cad.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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