Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Cardinality bounds for triangulations with bounded minimum angle

Conference ·
OSTI ID:10146193
We consider bounding the cardinality of an arbitrary triangulation with smallest angle {alpha}. We show that if the local feature size (i.e. distance between disjoint vertices or edges) of the triangulation is within a constant factor of the local feature size of the input, then N < O(1/{alpha})M, where N is the cardinality of the triangulation and M is the cardinality of any other triangulation with smallest angle at least {alpha}. Previous results had an O(1/{alpha}{sup 1/{alpha}}) dependence. Our O(1/{alpha}) dependence is tight for input with a large length to height ratio, in which triangles may be oriented along the long dimension.
Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
10146193
Report Number(s):
SAND--94-1046C; CONF-940887--1; ON: DE94010692; BR: GB0103012
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English