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    computational geometry, a sweep line algorithm or plane sweep algorithm is an algorithmic paradigm that uses a conceptual sweep line or sweep surface to solve...
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  • computational geometry, the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm is a sweep line algorithm for listing all crossings in a set of line segments, i.e. it finds the intersection...
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    Fortune's algorithm is a sweep line algorithm for generating a Voronoi diagram from a set of points in a plane using O(n log n) time and O(n) space. It...
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    Rotating calipers (category Geometric algorithms)
    calipers can be interpreted as the projective dual of a sweep line algorithm in which the sweep is across slopes of lines rather than across x- or y-coordinates...
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  • Dynamic programming Greedy algorithm Recursion Prune and search Kernelization Iterative compression Sweep line algorithms Rotating calipers Randomized...
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  • of segments is to use a sweep line algorithm, where we imagine a line sliding across the line segments and we track which line segments it intersects at...
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  • smoothing: an algorithm to smooth a polygonal mesh Line segment intersection: finding whether lines intersect, usually with a sweep line algorithm Bentley–Ottmann...
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  • tool Sweep account, a kind of bank account Sweep line algorithm, a concept in computational geometry Sweeps, a regional English term for windmill sails...
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    Boolean operations on polygons (category Geometric algorithms)
    on polygons tend to use plane sweep algorithms (or Sweep line algorithms). A list of papers using plane sweep algorithms for Boolean operations on polygons...
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  • smoothing: an algorithm to smooth a polygonal mesh Line segment intersection: finding whether lines intersect, usually with a sweep line algorithm Bentley–Ottmann...
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    partitioned into monotone subpolygons in O(n log n) time using a sweep-line approach. The algorithm does not require the polygon to be simple, thus it can be...
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  • Michael Ian Shamos (category Researchers in geometric algorithms)
    in computational geometry, and is known for the Shamos–Hoey sweep line algorithm for line segment intersection detection and for the rotating calipers...
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    algorithm for hidden-line elimination. Internat. J. Computer Mathematics, 18(2):93–119, 1985. O. Nurmi. A fast line-sweep algorithm for hidden line elimination...
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  • other algorithms. The technique is also known as stop-and-copy. Cheney's algorithm is an improvement on the semi-space collector. A mark and sweep garbage...
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    Closest pair of points problem (category Geometric algorithms)
    problem. Both sweep line algorithms and divide-and-conquer algorithms with this slower time bound are commonly taught as examples of these algorithm design techniques...
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  • operations are monotonic. Similarly, in sweep line algorithms in computational geometry, events at which the sweep line crosses a point of interest are prioritized...
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  • the top; this is conceptually similar to the Bentley–Ottmann algorithm. This sweep line approach divides the problem space by scanlines, imaginary horizontal...
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  • tracing algorithm is similar to the Square tracing algorithm with similar weaknesses but works with 8-connected (diagonal) patterns Radial sweep Theo Pavlidis’...
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    be constructed in O(n log n) using a divide and conquer algorithm or a sweep line algorithm. The problem commonly arises in physical design of electronic...
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  • moving canon style one at a time. After each movement, the line takes a step forward. Algorithm March lyrics, in English and Japanese (Romaji). Note: this...
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  • original algorithm, this was a burst of white noise, but it can also include any wideband signal, such as a rapid sine wave chirp or frequency sweep, or a...
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    Minkowski Portal Refinement (category Geometric algorithms)
    Refinement collision detection algorithm is a technique for determining whether two convex shapes overlap. The algorithm was created by Gary Snethen in...
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    representation is useful because the associated dominance order allows sweep line algorithms to be used. Bitolerance graphs are incomparability graphs of a bitolerance...
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    Delaunay triangulation that uses a radially propagating sweep-hull, and a flipping algorithm. The sweep-hull is created sequentially by iterating a radially-sorted...
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    A cellular evolutionary algorithm (cEA) is a kind of evolutionary algorithm (EA) in which individuals cannot mate arbitrarily, but every one interacts...
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  • simultaneous sweep through a row of A and a column of B) incurs a cache miss when accessing an element of B. This means that the algorithm incurs Θ(n3)...
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  • although the algorithm divides the data into p + 1 {\displaystyle p+1} blocks, only p processing elements run in parallel at a time. In a first sweep, each PE...
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    Monotone polygon (category Geometric algorithms)
    monotone polygon is sweepable by a line which does not change its orientation during the sweep. A polygon is strictly sweepable if no portion of its...
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    Visibility polygon (category Geometric algorithms)
    divide-and-conquer algorithm to compute the visibility polygon was proposed in 1987. An angular sweep, i.e. rotational plane sweep algorithm to compute the...
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    {\displaystyle p} of the hull, sweep a line circularly around p {\displaystyle p} , subdividing the plane into wedges within which the sweep line crosses one of the...
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