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Proceedings of the 25th annual symposium on Computational geometry - SCG '09

DOI: 10.1145/1542362.1542403

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Incremental construction of the Delaunay triangulation and the Delaunay graph in medium dimension

Proceedings article published in 2009 by Jean-Daniel Boissonnat, Olivier Devillers ORCID, Samuel Hornus
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Abstract

We describe a new implementation of the well-known incre- mental algorithm for constructing Delaunay triangulations in any dimension. Our implementation follows the exact computing paradigm and is fully robust. Extensive compar- isons show that our implementation outperforms the best currently available codes for exact convex hulls and Delau- nay triangulations, compares very well to the fast non-exact Qhull implementation and can be used for quite big input sets in spaces of dimensions up to 6. To circumvent pro- hibitive memory usage, we also propose a modification of the algorithm that uses and stores only the Delaunay graph (the edges of the full triangulation). We show that a careful implementation of the modified algorithm performs only 6 to 8 times slower than the original algorithm while drasti- cally reducing memory usage in dimension 4 or above.