On rectilinear link distance

On Rectilinear Link Distance

Given a simple polygon P without holes all of whose edges are axis-parallel, a rectilinear path in P is a path that consists of axis-parallel segments only and does not cross any edge of P. The length of such a path is defined as the number of segments it consists of and the rectilinear link distance between two points in P is defined as the length of the shortest path connecting the two points...

Rectilinear Link Diameter and Radius in a Rectilinear Polygonal Domain

We study the computation of the diameter and radius under the rectilinear link distance within a rectilinear polygonal domain of n vertices and h holes. We introduce a graph of oriented distances to encode the distance between pairs of points of the domain. This helps us transform the problem so that we can search through the candidates more efficiently. Our algorithm computes both the diameter...

An O(n5/2log n) Algorithm for the Rectilinear Minimum Link-Distance Problem

Rectilinear Distance in Rotated Regular Point Patterns

This paper examines the relationship between road directions and the rectilinear distance in regular point patterns. We derive the distributions of the rectilinear distances to the nearest and the second nearest points in rotated regular point patterns. These distributions demonstrate that road directions significantly affect the rectilinear distances. As an application of the nearest and the s...

k-Link Rectilinear Shortest Paths Among Rectilinear Obstacles in the Plane

We present an algorithm for computing k-link rectilinear shortest paths among rectilinear obstacles in the plane. We extend the “continuous Dijkstra” paradigm to store the link distance information associated with each propagating “wavefront”. Our algorithm runs in time O(kn log n) and space O(kn), where n is the number of vertices of the obstacles. Previous algorithms for the problem had worst...