Quadrilateral Meshing by Circle Packing

نویسندگان

  • Marshall W. Bern
  • David Eppstein
چکیده

We use circle-packing methods to generate quadrilateral meshes for polygonal domains, with guaranteed bounds both on the quality and the number of elements. We show that these methods can generate meshes of several types: (1) the elements form the cells of a Voronoı̈ diagram, (2) all elements have two opposite 90 angles, (3) all elements are kites, or (4) all angles are at most 120. In each case the total number of elements is O(n), where n is the number of input vertices.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Int. J. Comput. Geometry Appl.

دوره 10  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000