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- {\magonebf 6.6 Planar Subdivisions (subdivision)}
-
- An instance $S$ of the data type $subdivision$ is a subdivision of the
- two-dimensional plane, i.e., an embedded planar graph with straight
- line edges (see also sections 5.3 and 5.6). With each node $v$ of $S$ is
- associated a point, called the position of $v$ and with each face of $S$
- is associated an information from a data type $I$, called the information
- type of $S$.
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- {\bf 1. Declaration}
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- \decl subdivision I
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- introduces a new data type with name \name\ consisting of all
- planar subdivisions with information type $I$.
- \precond The data type $GRAPH(point,I)$ has been declared before.
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-
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- {\bf 2. Creation of a subdivision}
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- \create S (GRAPH(point,I)\ G)
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- creates an instance \var\ of type \name\ and initializes it to
- the subdivision represented by the parameterized directed graph $G$.
- The node entries of $G$ (of type point) define the positions of the
- corresponding nodes of \var. Every face $f$ of \var\ is assigned the
- information of one of its bounding edges in $G$. \precond $G$ represents
- a planar subdivision, i.e., a straight line embedded planar map.
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-
- \bigskip
- {\bf 2. \operations}
- \medskip
- \+\op point position {node\ v} { returns the position of node $v$.}
- \smallskip
- \+\op ftype inf {face\ f} { returns the information of face $f$.}
- \smallskip
- \+\op face locate\_point {point\ p} { returns the face containing point $p$.}
- \smallskip
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-
- \bigskip
- {\bf 3. Implementation}
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- Planar subdivisions are implemented by parameterized planar maps and an
- additional data structure for point location. Operations position and inf
- take constant time, a locate\_point operation takes time $O(\log^2 n)$.
- Here $n$ is the number of nodes. The space requiremnt and the
- initialization time is $O(n^2)$.
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