Voronoi diagrams for convex polygon-offset distance functions

In this paper we develop the concept of a convexpolygon-offset distance function. Using offset as a notion of distance, we show how to compute the corresponding nearest- and furthest-site Voronoi diagrams of point sites in the plane. We provide near-optimal deterministicO(n(logn + log2m) +m)-time algorithms, wheren is the number of points andm is the complexity of the underlying polygon, for computing compact representations of both diagrams.

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