Efficient Computation of the Geodesic Voronoi Diagram of Points in a Simple Polygon (Extended Abstract)

We present an O((n+k) log(n+k)) time algorithm for computing the geodesic Voronoi diagram of k points in a simple polygon of n vertices improving upon the previously known results. The method introduces a new approach to the construction of geodesic Voronoi diagrams by combining a sweep of the polygon and the merging step of a usual divide-and-conquer strategy.