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ArticleKAUST Department
Visual Computing Center (VCC)Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Computer Science Program
Geometric Algorithms Group
Date
2013-11Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/563055
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Given a simple rectilinear polygon P in the xy-plane, a roof over P is a terrain over P whose faces are supported by planes through edges of P that make a dihedral angle π/4 with the xy-plane. According to this definition, some roofs may have faces isolated from the boundary of P or even local minima, which are undesirable for several practical reasons. In this paper, we introduce realistic roofs by imposing a few additional constraints. We investigate the geometric and combinatorial properties of realistic roofs and show that the straight skeleton induces a realistic roof with maximum height and volume. We also show that the maximum possible number of distinct realistic roofs over P is ((n-4)(n-4)/4 /2⌋) when P has n vertices. We present an algorithm that enumerates a combinatorial representation of each such roof in O(1) time per roof without repetition, after O(n4) preprocessing time. We also present an O(n5)-time algorithm for computing a realistic roof with minimum height or volume. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.Citation
Ahn, H.-K., Bae, S. W., Knauer, C., Lee, M., Shin, C.-S., & Vigneron, A. (2013). Realistic roofs over a rectilinear polygon. Computational Geometry, 46(9), 1042–1055. doi:10.1016/j.comgeo.2013.06.002Sponsors
Work by Ahn was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (NRF-2010-0009857). Work by Bae was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (No. 2011-0005512). Work by Shin was supported by research grant funded by Hankuk University of Foreign Studies.Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
Computational Geometryae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.comgeo.2013.06.002