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Structure and Computation of Straight Skeletons in 3-Space

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Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2013)

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We characterize the self-parallel (mitered) offsets of a general nonconvex polytope \(\mathcal{Q}\) in 3-space and give a canonical algorithm that constructs a straight skeleton for \(\mathcal{Q}\).

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  1. Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Franz Aurenhammer & Gernot Walzl

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, 100084, Hong Kong, China

    Leizhen Cai

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, 100044, Hong Kong, China

    Siu-Wing Cheng

  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Hong Kong, Porfkulam, 100084, Hong Kong, China

    Tak-Wah Lam

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Aurenhammer, F., Walzl, G. (2013). Structure and Computation of Straight Skeletons in 3-Space. In: Cai, L., Cheng, SW., Lam, TW. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45030-3_5

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