1996 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
A Novel Type of Skeleton for Polygons
Authors : Oswin Aichholzer, Franz Aurenhammer, David Alberts, Bernd Gärtner
Published in: J.UCS The Journal of Universal Computer Science
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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A new internal structure for simple polygons, the straight skeleton, is introduced and discussed. It is composed of pieces of angular bisectores which partition the interior of a given n-gon P in a tree-like fashion into n monotone polygons. Its straight-line structure and its lower combinatorial complexity may make the straight skeleton preferable to the widely used medial axis of a polygon. As a seemingly unrelated application, the straight skeleton provides a canonical way of constructing a polygonal roof above a general layout of ground walls.