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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2004

Classroom Examples of Robustness Problems in Geometric Computations

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The algorithms of computational geometry are designed for a machine model with exact real arithmetic. Substituting floating point arithmetic for the assumed real arithmetic may cause implementations to fail. Although this is well known, there is no comprehensive documentation of what can go wrong and why. In this extended abstract, we study a simple incremental algorithm for planar convex hulls and give examples which make the algorithm fail in all possible ways. We also show how to construct failure-examples semi-systematically and discuss the geometry of the floating point implementation of the orientation predicate. We hope that our work will be useful for teaching computational geometry. The full paper is available at http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00344310/. It contains further examples, more theory, and color pictures. We strongly recommend to read the full paper instead of this extended abstract.
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inria-00344515 , version 1 (30-01-2009)

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Lutz Kettner, Kurt Mehlhorn, Sylvain Pion, Stefan Schirra, Chee Yap. Classroom Examples of Robustness Problems in Geometric Computations. European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), Sep 2004, Bergen, Norway. pp.702-713. ⟨inria-00344515⟩

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