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Edge Flip Algorithm for Delaunay Triangulation

This algorithm starts with constructing any triangulation. Then, the idea is to flip all non-locally Delaunay edges in this triangulation to be locally Delaunay. The concept of local Delaunayhood is discussed in [5] and [7]. A triangulation is Delaunay if and only if all edges are locally Delaunay. Algorithm uses a stack to keep all non-locally Delaunay edges. The stack contains at most one copy per edge and only the edges of the current triangulation. Following algorithm is due Charles Lawson and given in [5].
. Construct an arbitrary triangulation T of point set S.
. Push all non-locally interior edges of T on stack and mark them.
. While stack is non-empty do
= pop()
unmark
if is non-locally Delaunay then
Replace by the edge connecting the respective
third vertices of the two incident triangles
Push other four edges of the two triangles into the stack if unmarked



Alper Ungor
Tue May 13 15:38:16 CDT 1997