Computer Science – Computational Geometry
Scientific paper
2003-07-03
Computer Science
Computational Geometry
19 pages, 8 figures; v3 adds relative-error results; v2 adds description of related work in introduction
Scientific paper
We consider a general model for representing and manipulating parametric curves, in which a curve is specified by a black box mapping a parameter value between 0 and 1 to a point in Euclidean d-space. In this model, we consider the nearest-point-on-curve and farthest-point-on-curve problems: given a curve C and a point p, find a point on C nearest to p or farthest from p. In the general black-box model, no algorithm can solve these problems. Assuming a known bound on the speed of the curve (a Lipschitz condition), the answer can be estimated up to an additive error of epsilon using O(1/epsilon) samples, and this bound is tight in the worst case. However, many instances can be solved with substantially fewer samples, and we give algorithms that adapt to the inherent difficulty of the particular instance, up to a logarithmic factor. More precisely, if OPT(C,p,epsilon) is the minimum number of samples of C that every correct algorithm must perform to achieve tolerance epsilon, then our algorithm performs O(OPT(C,p,epsilon) log (epsilon^(-1)/OPT(C,p,epsilon))) samples. Furthermore, any algorithm requires Omega(k log (epsilon^(-1)/k)) samples for some instance C' with OPT(C',p,epsilon) = k; except that, for the nearest-point-on-curve problem when the distance between C and p is less than epsilon, OPT is 1 but the upper and lower bounds on the number of samples are both Theta(1/epsilon). When bounds on relative error are desired, we give algorithms that perform O(OPT log (2+(1+epsilon^(-1)) m^(-1)/OPT)) samples (where m is the exact minimum or maximum distance from p to C) and prove that Omega(OPT log (1/epsilon)) samples are necessary on some problem instances.
Baran Ilya
Demaine Erik D.
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