Kinetic polar diagram

Abstract

Polar Diagram [4] is a new locus approach for problems processing angles. The solution to many important problems in Computational Geometry requires some kind of angle processing of the data input. Using the Polar Diagrma as preprocessing, exhaustive searches to find those sites with smallest angle become unnecessary. In this paper, we use the notion of kinetic data structure [1][2] to model the dynamic case of polar diagram, i.e we maintain the polar diagram of a set of continuously moving objects in the scene. We show that our proposed structure meets the main criteria of a good KDS. © 2008 Springer-Verlag.