CSE 555 Spring 2010 HW #6
Chao Xu(106978083)
(1).
A concrete example such that a new point is outside the original minimum width annulus, but does not lieon the boundary of the new smallest width annulus:There are point
p
1
,p
2
,p
3
,p
4
with coordinate (0
,
4)
,
(
−
4
,
0)
,
(4
,
0)
,
(0
,
1) respectively. The minimum widthannulus is bounded by circle centered at origin with radius 1 and radius 4. The minimum width annulus haswidth 3.Adding the 5
th
point
p
5
with coordinate (0
,
5). Then the minimum width annulus that goes though point
p
5
has width 4. Bounded by the circle that goes though
p
2
,p
3
,p
5
, and the circle with the same center andradius of the distance from the center to point
p
4
.There exist a smaller width annulus. A circle centered at the midpoint of
p
1
p
4
, with diameter
p
1
p
4
. Andanother circle centered at the same center, and goes though
p
2
p
3
. The width of this annulus is 3
.
22.
(2).
7.5
Example: There are only 2 points,
p
i
and
p
j
, then if the sweep line is not parallel to
p
i
p
j
, and the sweepline touches
p
i
first. Then
p
i
contributes 2 arcs.Example: Let
p
0
be a point far removed from collinear points
p
1
,p
2
...p
n
. Use a sweep line that is parallelto
p
1
p
2
, and let it touches
p
0
first. When the sweep line encounters
p
1
,...,p
n
and moves forward by
, thearc of
p
0
will be almost a line since it’s far away from
p
1
. Each point from
p
1
to
p
n
will each contribute anarrow parabola that divide the arc of
p
0
into total of
n
+ 1 arcs.
7.6
Example: Let there be a line
l
, place 6 non-colinear points that is at most
ε
away from
l
, and at least
1
ε
away from each other. If there is a sweep line parallel to
l
and sweep though all 6 points, the circle will havediameter at least
1
ε
. For sufficiently small
ε
the sweep line will not tangent to any circle before sweep thoughall 6 points.
7.7
When a horizontal sweep line moves downwards, the breakpoints always move downwards. The locus of everythe breakpoints is a line segment or a half line, thus when a breakpoint appear, it begins a line segment of ahalf plane. Then the breakpoint trace though the line segment. Since the sweep line is moving downward,the other end point is below the place the breakpoint appeared. Therefore the breakpoint has to move down.1
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