--- _id: '11428' 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.' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Erin full_name: Chambers, Erin last_name: Chambers - first_name: Christopher D full_name: Fillmore, Christopher D id: 35638A5C-AAC7-11E9-B0BF-5503E6697425 last_name: Fillmore - first_name: Elizabeth R full_name: Stephenson, Elizabeth R id: 2D04F932-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Stephenson orcid: 0000-0002-6862-208X - first_name: Mathijs full_name: Wintraecken, Mathijs id: 307CFBC8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 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. conference: end_date: 2022-06-10 location: Berlin, Germany name: 'SoCG: Symposium on Computational Geometry' start_date: 2022-06-07 date_created: 2022-06-01T14:18:04Z date_published: 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-21T09:50:52Z day: '01' ddc: - '510' department: - _id: HeEd doi: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.66 ec_funded: 1 editor: - first_name: Xavier full_name: Goaoc, Xavier last_name: Goaoc - first_name: Michael full_name: Kerber, Michael last_name: Kerber file: - access_level: open_access checksum: b25ce40fade4ebc0bcaae176db4f5f1f content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2022-06-07T07:58:30Z date_updated: 2022-06-07T07:58:30Z file_id: '11437' file_name: 2022_LIPICs_Chambers.pdf file_size: 17580705 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2022-06-07T07:58:30Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 224' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '06' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 66:1-66:9 project: - _id: fc390959-9c52-11eb-aca3-afa58bd282b2 grant_number: M03073 name: Learning and triangulating manifolds via collapses - _id: 266A2E9E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '788183' name: Alpha Shape Theory Extended - _id: 260C2330-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: H2020 grant_number: '754411' name: ISTplus - Postdoctoral Fellowships publication: 38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry publication_identifier: isbn: - 978-3-95977-227-3 issn: - 1868-8969 publication_status: published publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' series_title: LIPIcs status: public title: 'A cautionary tale: Burning the medial axis is unstable' tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: conference user_id: 3E5EF7F0-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 volume: 224 year: '2022' ...