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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Optimal Two-Dimensional Triangulations

Abstract

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A triangulation in the plane is a maximal connected plane graph with straight edges. It is thus a plane graph whose bounded faces are triangles. For a fixed set of vertices, there are, in general, exponentially many ways to form a triangulation. Various criteria related to the geometry of triangles are used to define what one could mean by a triangulation that is optimal over all possibilities. The general problem studied in this thesis is the following: given a finite set S of vertices, possibly with some prescribed edges, how can we choose the rest of the edges to obtain an optimal triangulation? For example, we want to compute a min-max angle triangulation of S, i.e., a triangulation whose maximum angle over all its triangles is the smallest among all triangulations of S.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Science
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2014

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Tan, Tiow-Seng
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Edelsbrunner, Herbert

Subjects

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Identifiers

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Identifier
(UMI)AAI9314949
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72082

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2026-07-22
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citation

Tan, Tiow-Seng. Optimal Two-Dimensional Triangulations. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/72082