TY - JOUR
T1 - Polygon decomposition for efficient construction of Minkowski sums
AU - Agarwal, Pankaj K.
AU - Flato, Eyal
AU - Halperin, Dan
N1 - Funding Information:
✩A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the proceedings of the 8th European Symposium on Algorithms – ESA 2000. *Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.K. Agarwal), [email protected] (E. Flato), [email protected] (D. Halperin). 1Supported by Army Research Office MURI grant DAAH04-96-1-0013, by a Sloan fellowship, by NSF grants EIA-9870724, EIA-997287 and CCR-9732787 and by a grant from the U.S.–Israeli Binational Science Foundation. 2Supported in part by ESPRIT IV LTR Projects No. 21957 (CGAL) and No. 28155 (GALIA), and by a Franco–Israeli research grant (monitored by AFIRST/France and The Israeli Ministry of Science). 3Supported by a grant from the U.S.–Israeli Binational Science Foundation, by The Israel Science Foundation founded by the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Center for Geometric Computing and its Applications), and by the Hermann Minkowski–Minerva Center for Geometry at Tel Aviv University.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Several algorithms for computing the Minkowski sum of two polygons in the plane begin by decomposing each polygon into convex subpolygons. We examine different methods for decomposing polygons by their suitability for efficient construction of Minkowski sums. We study and experiment with various well-known decompositions as well as with several new decomposition schemes. We report on our experiments with various decompositions and different input polygons. Among our findings are that in general: (i) triangulations are too costly, (ii) what constitutes a good decomposition for one of the input polygons depends on the other input polygon - consequently, we develop a procedure for simultaneously decomposing the two polygons such that a "mixed" objective function is minimized, (iii) there are optimal decomposition algorithms that significantly expedite the Minkowski-sum computation, but the decomposition itself is expensive to compute - in such cases simple heuristics that approximate the optimal decomposition perform very well.
AB - Several algorithms for computing the Minkowski sum of two polygons in the plane begin by decomposing each polygon into convex subpolygons. We examine different methods for decomposing polygons by their suitability for efficient construction of Minkowski sums. We study and experiment with various well-known decompositions as well as with several new decomposition schemes. We report on our experiments with various decompositions and different input polygons. Among our findings are that in general: (i) triangulations are too costly, (ii) what constitutes a good decomposition for one of the input polygons depends on the other input polygon - consequently, we develop a procedure for simultaneously decomposing the two polygons such that a "mixed" objective function is minimized, (iii) there are optimal decomposition algorithms that significantly expedite the Minkowski-sum computation, but the decomposition itself is expensive to compute - in such cases simple heuristics that approximate the optimal decomposition perform very well.
KW - Convex decomposition
KW - Experimental results
KW - Minkowski sum
KW - Polygon decomposition
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U2 - 10.1016/S0925-7721(01)00041-4
DO - 10.1016/S0925-7721(01)00041-4
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AN - SCOPUS:31244436999
SN - 0925-7721
VL - 21
SP - 39
EP - 61
JO - Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
JF - Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
IS - 1-2
ER -