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Single-Strip Triangulation of Manifolds with Arbitrary Topology
Triangle strips have been widely used for efficient rendering. It is
NP-complete to test whether a given triangulated model can be represented as a
single triangle strip, so many heuristics have been proposed to partition
models into few long strips. In this paper, we present a new algorithm for
creating a single triangle loop or strip from a triangulated model. Our method
applies a dual graph matching algorithm to partition the mesh into cycles, and
then merges pairs of cycles by splitting adjacent triangles when necessary. New
vertices are introduced at midpoints of edges and the new triangles thus formed
are coplanar with their parent triangles, hence the visual fidelity of the
geometry is not changed. We prove that the increase in the number of triangles
due to this splitting is 50% in the worst case, however for all models we
tested the increase was less than 2%. We also prove tight bounds on the number
of triangles needed for a single-strip representation of a model with holes on
its boundary. Our strips can be used not only for efficient rendering, but also
for other applications including the generation of space filling curves on a
manifold of any arbitrary topology.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures. To appear at Eurographics 200
Embedding graphs having Ore-degree at most five
Let and be graphs on vertices, where is sufficiently large.
We prove that if has Ore-degree at most 5 and has minimum degree at
least then Comment: accepted for publication at SIAM J. Disc. Mat
Decompositions of Triangle-Dense Graphs
High triangle density -- the graph property stating that a constant fraction
of two-hop paths belong to a triangle -- is a common signature of social
networks. This paper studies triangle-dense graphs from a structural
perspective. We prove constructively that significant portions of a
triangle-dense graph are contained in a disjoint union of dense, radius 2
subgraphs. This result quantifies the extent to which triangle-dense graphs
resemble unions of cliques. We also show that our algorithm recovers planted
clusterings in approximation-stable k-median instances.Comment: 20 pages. Version 1->2: Minor edits. 2->3: Strengthened {\S}3.5,
removed appendi
Computation of Contour Integrals on
Contour integrals of rational functions over , the moduli
space of -punctured spheres, have recently appeared at the core of the
tree-level S-matrix of massless particles in arbitrary dimensions. The contour
is determined by the critical points of a certain Morse function on . The integrand is a general rational function of the puncture
locations with poles of arbitrary order as two punctures coincide. In this note
we provide an algorithm for the analytic computation of any such integral. The
algorithm uses three ingredients: an operation we call general KLT, Petersen's
theorem applied to the existence of a 2-factor in any 4-regular graph and
Hamiltonian decompositions of certain 4-regular graphs. The procedure is
iterative and reduces the computation of a general integral to that of simple
building blocks. These are integrals which compute double-color-ordered partial
amplitudes in a bi-adjoint cubic scalar theory.Comment: 36+11 p
Rectangular Layouts and Contact Graphs
Contact graphs of isothetic rectangles unify many concepts from applications
including VLSI and architectural design, computational geometry, and GIS.
Minimizing the area of their corresponding {\em rectangular layouts} is a key
problem. We study the area-optimization problem and show that it is NP-hard to
find a minimum-area rectangular layout of a given contact graph. We present
O(n)-time algorithms that construct -area rectangular layouts for
general contact graphs and -area rectangular layouts for trees.
(For trees, this is an -approximation algorithm.) We also present an
infinite family of graphs (rsp., trees) that require (rsp.,
) area.
We derive these results by presenting a new characterization of graphs that
admit rectangular layouts using the related concept of {\em rectangular duals}.
A corollary to our results relates the class of graphs that admit rectangular
layouts to {\em rectangle of influence drawings}.Comment: 28 pages, 13 figures, 55 references, 1 appendi
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