Title
Arrangements of curves in the plane—topology, combinatorics, and algorithms
Abstract
Arrangements of curves in the plane are fundamental to many problems in computational and combinatorial geometry (e.g. motion planning, algebraic cell decomposition, etc). In this paper we study various topological and combinatorial properties of such arrangements under some mild assumptions on the shape of the curves, and develop basic tools for the construction, manipulation, and analysis of these arrangements. Our main results include a generalization of the zone theorem of Edelsbrunner et al. (1986) and Chazelle (1985) to arrangements of curves (in which we show that the combinatorial complexity of the zone of a curve is nearly linear in the number of curves), and an application of that theorem to obtain a nearly quadratic incremental algorithm for the construction of such arrangements.
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1016/0304-3975(92)90319-B
ICALP
Keywords
DocType
Volume
motion planning,combinatorial geometry
Journal
92
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
0304-3975
3-540-19488-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
74
9.65
22
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Herbert Edelsbrunner167871112.29
Leonidas J. Guibas2130841262.73
János Pach32366292.28
Richard Pollack4912203.75
R. G. Seidel5922175.41
Micha Sharir684051183.84