Questions tagged [cg.comp-geom]
Computational Geometry is the study of geometric problems from a computational perspective. Examples of problems include: computation of geometric objects such as convex hulls, dimensionality reduction, shortest path problems in metric spaces, or finding a small subset of points that approximates some measure of the whole set (i.e. a coreset).
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Time Complexity for Nearest Neighbor Searches in kd-trees
Nearest neighbor searches in kd-trees run in logarithmic time, as shown by Friedman et al. However, I have some difficulty to fully understand the proof.
In order to calculate the average number of ...
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Document references describing weaknesses for cutting planes and algebraic proof system?
Here, Fortnow says (section 4.3):
Since then complexity theorists have shown similar weaknesses in a number of other proof systems including cutting planes, algebraic proof systems based on ...
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Approximate nearest neighbor search for $(\ell_p)^p$ metric, $0 < p < 1$
It is well known that approximate bichromatic nearest-neighbor search can be solved in sub-quadratic time for the $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ norms, as well as some other metrics. Are there any such results ...
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Optimal bee swarm plots: NP-hard?
Bee swarm plots are a way of visualizing one-dimensional data sets, similar to box plots. The idea is that if there's not too many points (e.g. <300) we can just plot them along the $x$-axis with ...
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Complexity of existence of simple polygonalization with prescribed area?
This is a followup on my previous question. Fekete proved the NP-completeness of deciding the existence of simple polygonalization with minimum (or maximum) enclosed area (simple polygonalization is ...
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Proof for Upper Bound of Sum of Square Roots Problem
In [1], Garey et al. identify what would later be known as the Sum of Square Roots Problem in the course of working out the NP-completeness of Euclidean TSP.
Given integers $a_1, a_2, \ldots, a_n$ ...
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Data structure to report points in the intersection of two circles
The circular range reporting is defined as follow: preprocess $n$ points in the plane so that the points inside a query circle, of any radius, can be reported quickly.
This was solved beautifully ...
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Embed graph in $\ell_2$ space so that edge and non-edge distances are separated by a constant factor
Suppose I have an undirected unweighted graph $G = (V,E)$. Is there a way to compute points $x_v \in \mathbb{R}^d$ for each vertex $v \in V$ such that $||x_v - x_u|| = 1$ whenever $(u,v) \in E$ and $ |...
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Reference request: Shortest homotopic curve via vertex releases
Let $C$ be a piecewise-linear path (or closed curve) in the plane, in the presence of polygonal obstacles. We would like to find the shortest path (or curve) homotopic to $C$. (A path $D$ is homotopic ...
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Finding the largest set of points of limited diameter (2)
Problem: Given a set of points $S = \{(x_1, y_1), (x_2, y_2),\cdots,(x_n, y_n)\}$ in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and a distance threshold $\tau$, find a subset of $S$ such that (1) the Euclidean distance between ...
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Lower bound on light spanners in Euclidean space reference
It is well-known that Euclidean space of dimension $d$ has a $(1+\epsilon)$-spanner of weight at most $\epsilon^{-O(d)}\cdot w(MST)$ (see Chapter 14 of Geometric Spanner Network book by Narashimhan ...
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How not to compute the smallest circle enclosing a finite set of circles
Suppose we have a finite set $L$ of disks in $\mathbb{R}^2$, and we wish to compute the smallest disk $D$ for which $\bigcup L\subseteq D$. A standard way to do this is to use the algorithm of ...
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Triangle arrangement problem
Suppose you are given an undirected graph $G$, with each vertex representing an equilateral triangle with sides of unit length. Does there exist an arrangement of these triangles in two dimensions (...
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Minimize the product of distances from n fixed points
Given $n$ fixed points $\{p_i\}_{i=1}^n$ in $D$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^D$, consider the following optimization problem:
$$
\begin{align}
\text{mininize} \ \ \ &\prod_{i=1}^n \...
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What is the proof that visibility graphs can be used to compute the shortest path?
I am trying to understand what the proof is that constructing a visibility graph and searching on can give you the shortest path between two points, avoiding a set of convex polygons. I am trying ...
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Computing Minima of the Projection of a Binary Cube
The problem is as follows: I want to compute the minima (with respect to the canonical partial order on vectors "$\leq$") of the linear projection of the extreme points of an $n$-dimensional $\{0,1\}$-...
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Smallest axis-aligned box that contains $k$ points
Input: A set of $n$ points in $\mathbb{R}^3$, and an integer $k \le n$.
Output: The smallest volume axis-aligned bounding box that contains at least $k$ of these $n$ points.
I'm wondering if any ...
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Generalized Priority Queues
I was wondering if there is any literature on the following problem:
Maintain a set $S$ where each element is a function from $\mathbb{R}$ to $\mathbb{R}$ supporting the following operations:
Insert ...
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Partitioning a rectangle without harming inner rectangles
$C$ is an axis-parallel rectangle.
$C_1,\dots,C_n$ are pairwise-interior-disjoint axis-parallel rectangles such that $C_1\cup\dots\cup C_n \subsetneq C$, like this:
A rectangle-preserving partition ...
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Clarification needed on an algorithm for $\epsilon$-net construction for the column space of PSD matrices
I found an algorithm for constructing an $\epsilon$-net for a positive semidefine matrix $A\in[-1,1]^{n\times n}$ which has $rank(A)=d$, described in the paper
The approximate rank of a matrix and ...
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Largest rectangle not touching any rock in a square field
Following this mathematical question, I am interested in the algorithmic question:
Given $n$ points in the unit square,
find the largest area of an axis-parallel rectangle in the unit square
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Minkowski decomposition of lattice point cloud
Given two point clouds $A,B\subset\mathbb Z^d$, let $A\oplus B$ be their Minkowski sum, defined as the set $\{ a + b : a\in A, b\in B \}$.
Is there any known result for the following problem?
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Compute lowest dimensional polytope from a given set of sign vectors
Given a set of hyperplanes determined by the normal vectors $h_1,\dots,h_m \in \mathbf R^d$, its cell types (or sign vectors) are all vectors $t\in\{+,-\}^m$ for which there exists a vector $v\in\...
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Non-Midpoint Segment Splitting in Ruppert's Delaunay Triangulation Refinement Algorithm
Roughly speaking, in Ruppert's Delaunay Triangulation refinement algorithm, so called encroached edges are split until no more encroached edges remain.
The algorithm specifies splitting the edges ...
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Far point queries in high dimensions
Given a set of points $X\subset R^d$ and a number $r\in R$, create a data structure for queries of the form: "given a point $q\in R^d$ return a point $x\in X$ with $\text{dist}(q,x)\ge r$".
This is ...
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arbitrary segment stabbing query for 2d segments
Store a set of 2d segments S in some data structure. For an arbitrary query 2d segment q, answer a yes/no question in sublinear time: whether q intersect with any segment in S?
If the query is a ...
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VC-dimension of triangles in 2D space [closed]
I have been reading in multiple places (e.g. [1], section 4) that the VC-dimension of the class of triangles (in 2D space) is 7.
The issue is that, for the case when 4 points lying on a straight line ...
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Sorted intervals query
I'm in search for a data structure which efficiently operates over closed intervals with the following properties:
dynamically add or remove an interval
set, and anytime change, a number ("depth") ...
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Algorithm to find all intersections in set of simplices
What is the fastest known algorithm to report all intersecting pairs amongst a collection of $n$ simplices, each with dimension at most $r \leq d$ embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$ (for small $d$)?
In the ...
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k closest points that belong to a set
This is a question from theory community, but I came across this issue in a practical problem. So just have this in mind.
I have a set of real vectors:
$$
S = \lbrace v_1, \dots, v_n \rbrace
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$...
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Bichromatic all nearest neighbors
Given two finite sets of points, $R, B \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$, compute a map $f : R \to B$ where:
$f(r) = \text{argmin}_{b \in B} |r - b|$
That is $f(r)$ is the closest point in $B$ to the point $r$...
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Fast high-dimensional K-nearest neighbors
I'm aware of this question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4350215/fastest-nearest-neighbor-algorithm
But it's not the same question as I'm asking. Because, Octree and its generalization are only ...
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$k$th closest pair of points
The problem of finding the pair of closest points in a set of points has been a classical example of divide and conquer technique for some decades now. But I could not find any results on finding $k$...
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Problems in dynamic algorithms in computational geometry
The publication of Chiang and Tamassia's paper on dynamic algorithms in computational geometry included several algorithms used in solving dynamic computational geometry problems such as:
Dynamic ...
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Time complexity of d-dimensional convex hull
Consider the convex hull problem in $\Re^d$:
Input: a list of $n$ points $S$ in $\Re^d$,
Output: the vertices of the convex hull of $S$.
What is the best lower bound on the time complexity of ...
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Is there an algorithm that, given a point cloud, infers an optimal wireframe (surface) structure?
I have a point cloud that I would like to convert to a surface, in the form of a wireframe lattice structure.
This means, from a sequence of 3D points (x,y,z), obtaining three 2D matrices X,Y,Z of ...
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Number of points on the interior of the convex hull of a random subset
This question is in regards to the following problem:
Suppose you are given a set $S$ of $n$ points in the plane. Let $R$ be a random subset of $S$ of size $r$ with all subsets of size $r$ equally ...
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Find all hyperplanes separating unique sets of `k` points
I have a series of n points in d-dimensional continuous space. I want to find a series of hyperplanes such that ...
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Match two Polylines [closed]
As per Image, for a Given polyline P which consists of set of Points {(px1, py2), (px2, py2)}, i want to find to which polyline M1, M2, M3 , it matches the best.
Output : M3 Polyline.
Please provide ...
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Barcode of a graph
Using persistent homology, we can analyze the (topological) shape of a cloud of points using the following three-step method:
convert the point set into a simplicial complex (and there are a few ...
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Practical algorithm for testing whether an edge is Delaunay
I have a set of vertices $V\subset\mathbb R^3$ and a set of edges $S=\{(a,b)|a,b \in V\}$. I want to know whether an edge in the set $S$ is Delaunay against the vertices in $V$.
My assumed ...
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Topological properties of Delaunay triangulations
Do Delaunay triangulations satisfy any extra topological conditions over normal planar triangulations?
In other words, if $T$ is a topological triangulation of the plane, when does there exist points ...
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Is this constrained planar triangulation algorithm $O(m \log m)$?
Background: I am implementing triangle mesh CSG using symbolically perturbed exact arithmetic. One of the required subalgorithms is retriangulating a triangular face $T_0$ of the input mesh cut by ...
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Finding balls that contain a point
Suppose you are given a collection of $n$ balls in $\mathbb{R}^d$, and you want to preprocess them in such a way that you can later query them to find all spheres which contain any test point.
What ...
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Multidimensional arithmetic progression variant
For $\vec{d} \in \mathbb{N}^n$, let $Q(\vec{d}) \subset \mathbb{N}^n$ be the set of vertices of the $n$-dimensional cube scaled in the direction of the $i$-th coordinate by $d_i$, i.e.
$Q(\vec{d} = \{...
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BSP, but with curved surfaces (NURBS? kernelized support vectors?)
Let's say that I wanted to use a BSP not just for partitioning points, but also to define surfaces, i.e. that I have $\mathbb{R}^2$ and I want to be able to continuously map at least some easily known/...
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parameterized algorithms for geometric set cover
Are there any parametrized algorithms $W$-hardness results known for the computational problem Geometric Set Cover?
It is known that set cover problem is $W[2]$ hard when parametrized by the solution ...
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Minimum length cuts needed to remove holes in a polygon
Suppose I'm given a connected polygon in the plane with holes. I can "remove" a hole by drawing a straight line from the boundary of a hole to another boundary (either of another hole, or the boundary ...
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Computing the convex hull of several polyhedra
Let $K_1,..., K_m$ be a set of $m$ polyhedra, with $K_i\subseteq \mathbf{R}^n$, for all $i\in [m]$, and each is described by a set of $poly(n)$ linear inequalities.
How easy is it to compute an ...
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Overlaying a point cloud on a two-dimensional probability distribution such that the local point density corresponds to the local probability density
Say I sample a set of points $(p_1,p_2,...) \in P$ from a probability distribution $f(x,y)$, e.g. a bivariate normal distribution, such that my sampling process chooses a point in the distribution ...
