Iterated snap rounding

Iterated snap rounding

New Developments in Iterated Rounding∗

Iterated rounding is a relatively recent technique in algorithm design, that despite its simplicity has led to several remarkable new results and also simpler proofs of many previous results. We will briefly survey some applications of the method, including some recent developments and giving a high level overview of the ideas. 1998 ACM Subject Classification F.2.2 Nonnumerical Algorithms and P...

Extending the Power of Snap Rounding Variants

Snap Rounding (SR for short) is a method for converting arbitrary-precision arrangements of line segments into a fixed-precision representation. In the previous years two variants of SR were presented: Iterated Snap Rounding (ISR) and Iterated Snap Rounding with Bounded Drift (ISRBD). Their goal was to eliminate an undesirable property that SR possesses. Prior to their appearances, the capabili...

Efficient Snap Rounding with Integer Arithmetic

In this paper we present a slightly modified definition of snap rounding, and provide two efficient algorithms that perform this rounding. The first algorithm takes n line segments as input and generates the set of snapped segments in O(|I| + Σc is(c) log n + |I∗ m|), where |I| is the complexity of the unrounded arrangement I, is(c) is the number of segments that have an intersection or endpoin...

An intersection-sensitive algorithm for snap rounding

Snap rounding is a method for converting arbitrary-precision arrangements of segments into fixed-precision representation. We present an algorithm for snap rounding with running time O((n + I) log n), where I is the number of intersections between the input segments. In the worst case, our algorithm is an order of magnitude more efficient than the best previously known algorithms. We also propo...