[comp.graphics] Triangulating Polygons

johnm@homxb.ATT.COM (J.MEDAMANA) (12/03/88)

I am looking for software for triangulating simple polygons.
Please respond by e-mail.  Thanks in advance.

Phone : (201)949-4895
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John Medamana
AT&T Bell Labs

wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu (Wm Randolph Franklin) (06/07/90)

From uselton@wk39.nas.nasa.gov Thu Jun  7 03:20:18 1990
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 90 00:17:13 -0700
From: uselton@wk39.nas.nasa.gov (Samuel P. Uselton)
To: wrf@ecse.rpi.edu

I can't post from here, so please send this follow up to comp.graphics...
I'm attending the Computational Geometry conference in Berkeley.  On the
program (and in the Proceedings) is Chazelle's n log*n algorithm for
triangulating a polygon.  It was announced today, verbally that he will
present a linear time algorithm on Friday!  Apparently the n log* n was
finished around January, and the linear result is only a couple of weeks 
old.  Maria Klawe has already seen it, believes it, and believes that a
simpler refinement is a matter of time.   Good news, eh?

Sam Uselton
employed by CSC
working for NASA
speaking for myself                        uselton@nas.nasa.gov

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