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MPI-I-92-108

Computing intersections and arrangements for red-blue curve segments in parallel

Rüb, Christine

MPI-I-92-108. February 1992, 30 pages. | Status: available - back from printing | Next --> Entry | Previous <-- Entry

Abstract in LaTeX format:
Let $A$ and $B$ be two sets of well-behaved'' (i.e., continuous and
x-monotone) curve segments in the plane, where no two segments in $A$
(similarly, $B$) intersect. In this paper we show how to report all
points of intersection between segments in $A$ and segments in $B$, and
how to construct the arrangement defined by the segments in $A\cup B$
in parallel using the concurrent-read-exclusive-write (CREW-) PRAM
model. The algorithms perform a work of $O(n\log n+k)$ using
$p\leq n+k/\log n$ ($p\leq n/\log n+k/\log ^2 n$, resp.,) processors
if we assume that the handling of segments is cheap'', e.g., if
two segments intersect at most a constant number of times,
where $n$ is the total number of segments and $k$ is the number of
points of intersection. If we only assume that
a single processor can compute an arbitrary point of intersection
between two segments in constant time, the performed work increases
to $O(n\log n+m(k+p))$, where $m$ is the maximal number of points of
intersection between two segments.
We also show how to count the number of points of intersection between
segments in $A$ and segments in $B$ in time $O(\log n)$ using $n$
processors on a CREW-PRAM if two curve segments intersect at most twice.
Acknowledgement:
References to related material:

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BibTeX
@TECHREPORT{Rueb92,
AUTHOR = {R{\"u}b, Christine},
TITLE = {Computing intersections and arrangements for red-blue curve segments in parallel},
TYPE = {Research Report},
INSTITUTION = {Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r Informatik},