The Delaunay terminal edge algorithm for triangulation improvement proceeds by iterative Lepp selection of a point M which is midpoint of a Delaunay terminal edge in the mesh. The longest edge bisection of the associated terminal triangles (sharing the terminal edge) can be seen as a first step in the Delaunay insertion of M . The method was introduced as a generalization of non-Delaunay longes...

This work investigates the Delaunay refinement for curved complexes. A manifold complex is defined as an unambiguous representation for the geometric objects required by a partial differential equation solver. The Chew’s and Ruppert’s Delaunay refinement algorithms, including an extension for curved complexes, are described under a new and arbitrary dimensional perspective. A theorem for strong...

We prove that there are superexponentially many combinatorially distinct d-dimensional neighborly Delaunay triangulations on n points. These are the first examples of neighborly Delaunay triangulations that cannot be obtained via a stereographic projection of an inscribed cyclic polytope, and provide the current best lower bound for the number of combinatorial types of Delaunay triangulations. ...

Isotropic tetrahedron meshes generated by Delaunay refinement algorithms are known to contain a majority of well-shaped tetrahedra, as well as spurious sliver tetrahedra. As the slivers hamper stability of numerical simulations we aim at removing them while keeping the triangulation Delaunay for simplicity. The solution which explicitly perturbs the slivers through random vertex relocation and ...

Updating a Delaunay triangulation when data points are slightly moved is the bottleneck of computation time in variational methods for mesh generation and remeshing. Utilizing the connectivity coherence between two consecutive Delaunay triangulations for computation speedup is the key to solving this problem. Our contribution is an effective filtering technique that confirms most bi-cells whose...

Anisotropic meshes are triangulations of a given domain in the plane or in higher dimensions, with elements elongated along prescribed directions. Anisotropic triangulations are known to be well suited for interpolation of functions or solving PDEs. Assuming that the anisotropic shape requirements for mesh elements are given through a metric field varying over the domain, we propose a new appro...

In this paper, we are concerned with Delaunay triangulations of the vertex set of a piecewise flat (pwf) surface. We first propose the notion of well-formed Voronoi diagrams and establish a precise dual relationship between them and proper Delaunay triangulations on pwf surfaces. Then we provide an algorithm which, given any input manifold triangle mesh, constructs aDelaunay mesh: a manifold tr...

Recently, application-layer multicast has emerged as an attempt to support group applications without the need for a network-layer multicast protocol, such as IP multicast. In application-layer multicast, applications arrange themselves as a logical overlay network and transfer data within the overlay network. In this paper, Delaunay triangulations are investigated as an overlay network topolog...

An algorithm for constructing constrained Delaunay triangulation (CDT) of a planar straight-line graph (PSLG) is presented. Although the uniform grid method can reduce the time cost of visibility determinations, the time needed to construct the CDT is still long. The algorithm proposed in this paper decreases the number of edges involved in the computation of visibility by replacing traditional...

The Delaunay Tree is a hierarchical data structure that has been introduced in [6] and analyzed in [7,4]. For a given set of sites S in the plane and an order of insertion for these sites, the Delaunay Tree stores all the successive Delaunay triangulations. As proved before, the Delaunay Tree allows the insertion of a site in logarithmic expected time and linear expected space, when the inserti...