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1997 Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (APDC '97)
An Improved Parallel Algorithm for Delaunay Triangulation on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers
Shanghai, CHINA
March 19-March 21
ISBN: 0-8186-7876-3
Sangyoon Lee, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
Chan-Ik Park, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
Chan-Mo Park, Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea
Delaunay triangulation has been much used in such applications as volume rendering, shape representation, terrain modeling and so on. The main disadvantage of Delaunay triangulation is large computation time required to obtain the triangulation on an input points set. This time can be reduced by using more than one processor, and several parallel algorithms for Delaunay triangulation have been proposed. In this paper, we propose an improved parallel algorithm for Delaunay triangulation, which partitions the bounding convex region of the input points set into a number of regions by using Delaunay edges and generates Delaunay triangles in each region by applying an incremental construction approach. Partitioning by Delaunay edges makes it possible to eliminate merging step required for integrating subresults. It is shown from the experiments that the proposed algorithm has good load balance and is more efficient than Cignoni et al.'s algorithm (1993) and our previous algorithm (1996).
Index Terms:
mesh generation, Delaunay triangulation, parallel algorithms, distributed memory parallel computers, computation time, load balance
Citation:
Sangyoon Lee, Chan-Ik Park, Chan-Mo Park, "An Improved Parallel Algorithm for Delaunay Triangulation on Distributed Memory Parallel Computers," apdc, pp.131, 1997 Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Conference (APDC '97), 1997
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