• DocumentCode
    1843254
  • Title

    Extensible point location algorithm

  • Author

    Sundareswara, Rashmi ; Schrater, Paul

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
  • fYear
    2003
  • fDate
    16-18 July 2003
  • Firstpage
    84
  • Lastpage
    89
  • Abstract
    We present a general walkthrough point location algorithm for use with general polyhedron lattices and polygonal meshes assuming the usage of nothing more than a simple linked list as a data structure to store the polyhedra. The generality of the approach stems from using barycentric coordinates to extract local information about the location of the query point that allows a ´gradient descent´-like walk toward the goal.
  • Keywords
    computational complexity; computational geometry; computer graphics; feature extraction; barycentric coordinate; barycentric polyhedra; general polyhedron lattice; gradient descent; local information extraction; nonhomogenous mesh; polygonal mesh; polyhedra storage; polyhedral lattice; query point location; walkthrough algorithm; Cities and towns; Computer displays; Computer science; Data engineering; Data mining; Data structures; Lattices; Shape; Software packages; Solid modeling;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geometric Modeling and Graphics, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-1985-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GMAG.2003.1219670
  • Filename
    1219670