A method is presented for generalising cartographic lines using an approach based on determination of their structure. Constrained Delaunay triangulation is used to construct a skeleton of the space surrounding the lines and hence represent line features in terms of skeleton branches. Several statistical measures are used to characterise the triangulation branches. The measures enable selective...

A fast and easy to implement divide-and-conquer algorithm is presented for the construction of the Constrained Delaunay triangulation of a polygonal domain. The algorithm simplifies the complicated merging step inherent to divide-and-conquer algorithms for the computation of triangulations. Furthermore, no triangles are computed outside the valid region of the domain. A grid structure accelerat...

We present an algorithmic framework for producing Delaunay triangulations of manifolds. The input to the algorithm is a set of sample points together with coordinate patches indexed by those points. The transition functions between nearby coordinate patches are required to be bi-Lipschitz with a constant close to 1. The primary novelty of the framework is that it can accommodate abstract manifo...

A b s t r a c t . Interpolation of 3D segments obtained through a trinocular stereo process is achieved by using a 2D Delannay triangulation on the image plane of one of the vision system cameras. The resulting two-dimensional triangulation is backprojected into the 3D space, generating a surface description in terms of triangular faces. The use of a constrained Delaunay triangulation in the im...

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...

In this short paper we consider the functional density on sets of uniformly bounded triangulations with fixed sets of vertices. We prove that if a functional attains its minimum on the Delaunay triangulation for every finite set in the plane, then for infinite sets the density of this functional attains its minimum also on the Delaunay triangulations. A Delaunay set in E is a set of points X fo...

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...

Given a finite sampling P ⊂ R of an unknown surface S, surface reconstruction is concerned with the calculation of a model of S from P . The model can be represented as a smooth or a triangulated surface, and is expected to match S from a topological and geometric standpoints. In this survey, we focus on the recent developments of Delaunay based surface reconstruction methods, which were the fi...