Abstract: We present a simple new algorithm for triangulating polygons and
planar straightline graphs. It provides "shape" and "size" guarantees:
ffl All triangles have a bounded aspect ratio.
ffl The number of triangles is within a constant factor of optimal.
Such "quality" triangulations are desirable as meshes for the finite
element method, in which the running time generally increases with
the number of triangles, and where the convergence and stability may
be hurt by very skinny triangles. The... (Update)
.... Delaunay refinement algorithms typically bound the sizes of the elements they create in terms of this or a similar definition oflfs [17, 21].lfs is a continuous function that is positive everywhere and suggests a rough upper bound on how large high quality elements can be. It...
.... to the traditional setting, where appropriate measures of quality and algorithms to compute highquality meshes are well known [1, 2, 4, 13, 15]. Acknowledgments The authors thank David Bunde, Michael Garland, Shripad Thite, and especially Bob Haber for several helpful...
Jim Ruppert. A Delaunay Refinement Algorithm for Quality 2-Dimensional Mesh Generation. Journal of Algorithms 18(3):548--585, May 1995. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/article/ruppert94delaunay.html More
@article{ ruppert95delaunay,
author = "Jim Ruppert",
title = "A Delaunay Refinement Algorithm for Quality 2-Dimensional Mesh Generation",
journal = "J. Algorithms",
volume = "18",
number = "3",
pages = "548-585",
year = "1995",
url = "citeseer.nj.nec.com/article/ruppert94delaunay.html" }