Recognizing Weakly Simple Polygons

Authors Hugo A. Akitaya, Greg Aloupis, Jeff Erickson, Csaba Tóth



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Hugo A. Akitaya
Greg Aloupis
Jeff Erickson
Csaba Tóth

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Hugo A. Akitaya, Greg Aloupis, Jeff Erickson, and Csaba Tóth. Recognizing Weakly Simple Polygons. In 32nd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 51, pp. 8:1-8:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2016.8

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We present an O(n log n)-time algorithm that determines whether a given planar n-gon is weakly simple. This improves upon an O(n^2 log n)-time algorithm by [Chang, Erickson, and Xu, SODA, 2015]. Weakly simple polygons are required as input for several geometric algorithms. As such, how to recognize simple or weakly simple polygons is a fundamental question.
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  • weakly simple polygon
  • crossing

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