A Linear-time Construction of the Relative Neighborhood Graph From the Delaunay Triangulation

Abstract A very simple linear-time algorithm for constructing the relative neighborhood graph RNG( V ) for a finite set V of points in the plane from the Delaunay triangulation of V is presented. It is extended to include the construction of the so called β -skeletons (generalization of RNG( V )) in the spectrum 1 ⩽ β ⩽ 2 in linear time from the Delaunay triangulation under the metric L p for 1 p p = 2.