Discretized Riemannian Delaunay Triangulations

An obstruction to Delaunay triangulations in Riemannian manifolds

Delaunay has shown that the Delaunay complex of a finite set of points P of Euclidean space R triangulates the convex hull of P , provided that P satisfies a mild genericity property. Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay complexes can be defined for arbitrary Riemannian manifolds. However, Delaunay’s genericity assumption no longer guarantees that the Delaunay complex will yield a triangulation; stron...

Restricted Constrained Delaunay Triangulations

We introduce the restricted constrained Delaunay triangulation (restricted CDT). The restricted CDT generalizes the restricted Delaunay triangulation, allowing us to define a triangulation of a surface that includes a set of constraining segments. Under certain sampling conditions, the restricted CDT includes every constrained segment and suggests an algorithm that produces a triangulation of t...

Blocking Delaunay triangulations

Given a set B of n black points in general position, we say that a set of white points W blocks B if in the Delaunay triangulation of [Formula: see text] there is no edge connecting two black points. We give the following bounds for the size of the smallest set W blocking B: (i) [Formula: see text] white points are always sufficient to block a set of n black points, (ii) if B is in convex posit...

Higher Order Delaunay Triangulations

Riemannian Simplices and Triangulations

We study a natural intrinsic definition of geometric simplices in Riemannian manifolds of arbitrary finite dimension, and exploit these simplices to obtain criteria for triangulating compact Riemannian manifolds. These geometric simplices are defined using Karcher means. Given a finite set of vertices in a convex set on the manifold, the point that minimises the weighted sum of squared distance...