Computing positively weighted straight skeletons of simple polygons based on a bisector arrangement

Abstract We extend the work by Huber and Held (IJCGA 2012) on straight-skeleton computation based on motorcycle graphs to positively weighted skeletons. Resorting to a line arrangement induced by the r reflex vertices of a simple n-vertex polygon P allows to compute the weighted straight skeleton of P in O ( n 2 + r 3 k + n r log ⁡ n ) time and O ( n + k r ) space, for an arbitrary positive integer k ≤ r .