[{"abstract":[{"text":"In this paper we deal with two problems on star-shaped polygons. First, we present a Las-Vegas algorithm that uniformly at random creates a star-shaped polygon whose vertices are given by a point set ( S ) of ( n ) points in the plane that does not admit degenerate star-shaped polygons. The expected running time of the algorithm is ( O(n^2log n) ) and it uses ( O(n) ) memory. We call a star-shaped polygon degenerate if its kernel has 0 area.
Secondly, we show how to count all star-shaped polygons whose vertices are a subset of ( S ) in ( O(n^5log n) ) time and ( O(n) ) space. The algorithm can also be used for random uniform generation. We also present lower and upper bounds on the number of star-shaped polygons.","lang":"eng"}],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"63"}],"date_created":"2020-08-28T14:20:42Z","user_id":"15415","citation":{"bibtex":"@inproceedings{Sohler_1999, title={Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons}, booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99)}, author={Sohler, Christian}, year={1999}, pages={174–177} }","apa":"Sohler, C. (1999). Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons. In Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99) (pp. 174–177).","short":"C. Sohler, in: Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99), 1999, pp. 174–177.","ieee":"C. Sohler, “Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons,” in Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99), 1999, pp. 174–177.","ama":"Sohler C. Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons. In: Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99). ; 1999:174-177.","chicago":"Sohler, Christian. “Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons.” In Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99), 174–77, 1999.","mla":"Sohler, Christian. “Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons.” Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG’99), 1999, pp. 174–77."},"publication":"Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry ('CCCG'99)","type":"conference","year":"1999","date_updated":"2022-01-06T06:53:40Z","page":"174-177","author":[{"full_name":"Sohler, Christian","last_name":"Sohler","first_name":"Christian"}],"_id":"18576","title":"Generating Random Star-Shaped Polygons","status":"public"}]