Visibility maps of realistic terrains have linear smoothed complexity

Authors

  • Mark de Berg TU Eindhoven
  • Herman Haverkort TU Eindhoven
  • Constantinos P. Tsirogiannis TU Eindhoven

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20382/jocg.v1i1a5

Abstract

We study the complexity of the visibility map of terrains whose triangles are fat, not too steep and have roughly the same size. It is known that the complexity of the visibility map of such a terrain with n triangles is Θ(n2) in the worst case. We prove that if the elevations of the vertices of the terrain are subject to uniform noise which is proportional to the edge lengths, then the worst-case expected (smoothed) complexity is only Θ(n). We also prove non-trivial bounds for the smoothed complexity of instances where some triangles do not satisfy the above properties. Our results provide an explanation why visibility maps of superlinear complexity are unlikely to be encountered in practice.

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Author Biography

Constantinos P. Tsirogiannis, TU Eindhoven

PhD student at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics at TU of Eindhoven

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Published

2010-06-12

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2010)

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