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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: The medial axis of a set consists of the points in the ambient space without
a unique closest point on the original set. Since its introduction, the medial
axis has been used extensively in many applications as a method of computing a
topologically equivalent skeleton. Unfortunately, one limiting factor in the use
of the medial axis of a smooth manifold is that it is not necessarily topologically
stable under small perturbations of the manifold. To counter these instabilities
various prunings of the medial axis have been proposed. Here, we examine one type
of pruning, called burning. Because of the good experimental results, it was hoped
that the burning method of simplifying the medial axis would be stable. In this
work we show a simple example that dashes such hopes based on Bing’s house with
two rooms, demonstrating an isotopy of a shape where the medial axis goes from
collapsible to non-collapsible.
acknowledgement: 'Partially supported by the DFG Collaborative Research Center TRR
109, “Discretization in Geometry and Dynamics” and the European Research Council
(ERC), grant no. 788183, “Alpha Shape Theory Extended”. Erin Chambers: Supported
in part by the National Science Foundation through grants DBI-1759807, CCF-1907612,
and CCF-2106672. Mathijs Wintraecken: Supported by the European Union’s Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement
No. 754411. The Austrian science fund (FWF) M-3073 Acknowledgements We thank André
Lieutier, David Letscher, Ellen Gasparovic, Kathryn Leonard, and Tao Ju for early
discussions on this work. We also thank Lu Liu, Yajie Yan and Tao Ju for sharing
code to generate the examples.'
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author:
- first_name: Erin
full_name: Chambers, Erin
last_name: Chambers
- first_name: Christopher D
full_name: Fillmore, Christopher D
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last_name: Fillmore
- first_name: Elizabeth R
full_name: Stephenson, Elizabeth R
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last_name: Stephenson
orcid: 0000-0002-6862-208X
- first_name: Mathijs
full_name: Wintraecken, Mathijs
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last_name: Wintraecken
orcid: 0000-0002-7472-2220
citation:
ama: 'Chambers E, Fillmore CD, Stephenson ER, Wintraecken M. A cautionary tale:
Burning the medial axis is unstable. In: Goaoc X, Kerber M, eds. 38th International
Symposium on Computational Geometry. Vol 224. LIPIcs. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik; 2022:66:1-66:9. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.66'
apa: 'Chambers, E., Fillmore, C. D., Stephenson, E. R., & Wintraecken, M. (2022).
A cautionary tale: Burning the medial axis is unstable. In X. Goaoc & M. Kerber
(Eds.), 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (Vol. 224,
p. 66:1-66:9). Berlin, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik.
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.66'
chicago: 'Chambers, Erin, Christopher D Fillmore, Elizabeth R Stephenson, and Mathijs
Wintraecken. “A Cautionary Tale: Burning the Medial Axis Is Unstable.” In 38th
International Symposium on Computational Geometry, edited by Xavier Goaoc
and Michael Kerber, 224:66:1-66:9. LIPIcs. Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum
für Informatik, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.66.'
ieee: 'E. Chambers, C. D. Fillmore, E. R. Stephenson, and M. Wintraecken, “A cautionary
tale: Burning the medial axis is unstable,” in 38th International Symposium
on Computational Geometry, Berlin, Germany, 2022, vol. 224, p. 66:1-66:9.'
ista: 'Chambers E, Fillmore CD, Stephenson ER, Wintraecken M. 2022. A cautionary
tale: Burning the medial axis is unstable. 38th International Symposium on Computational
Geometry. SoCG: Symposium on Computational GeometryLIPIcs vol. 224, 66:1-66:9.'
mla: 'Chambers, Erin, et al. “A Cautionary Tale: Burning the Medial Axis Is Unstable.”
38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, edited by Xavier
Goaoc and Michael Kerber, vol. 224, Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik,
2022, p. 66:1-66:9, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.66.'
short: E. Chambers, C.D. Fillmore, E.R. Stephenson, M. Wintraecken, in:, X. Goaoc,
M. Kerber (Eds.), 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry, Schloss
Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2022, p. 66:1-66:9.
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date_updated: 2023-02-21T09:50:52Z
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