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A near-optimal heuristic for minimum weight triangulation of convex polygons

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OSTI ID:471709

A linear-time heuristic for minimum weight triangulation of convex polygons is presented. This heuristic produces a triangulation of length within a factor 1 + {epsilon} from the optimum, where {epsilon} is an arbitrarily small positive constant. This is the first sub-cubic algorithm which guarantees such an approximation factor, and it has interesting applications.

OSTI ID:
471709
Report Number(s):
CONF-970142--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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