Crust and Anti-Crust: A One-Step Boundary and Skeleton Extraction Algorithm

We wish to extract the topology from scanned maps. In previous work [15] this was done by extracting a skeleton from the Voronoi diagram, but this required vertex labelling and was only useable for polygon maps. We wished to take the crust algorithm of Amenta, Bern and Eppstein [3] and modify it to extract the skeleton from unlabelled vertices. We find that by reducing the algorithm to a local test on the simple Voronoi diagram of point sites we may extract both the crust and the skeleton simultaneously. We show that this produces the same results as the original algorithm, and illustrate its utility with various cartographic applications. Keywords Crust; Skeleton; Medial axis; Voronoi diagram;

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: COMPGEOM
• Authors: Christopher M. Gold
• Keywords: COMPGEOM 1999, Discrete Geometry, Simple Voronoi Diagram, Skeleton, Voronoi Diagram