Counting the onion

Iteratively computing and discarding a set of convex hulls creates a structure known as an "onion". In this thesis, we show that the expected number of layers of a convex hull onion for n uniformly and independently distributed points in a disk is theta( n23 ). Additionally, we show tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dalal, Ketan
Other Authors: Devroye, Luc (advisor)
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: McGill University 2004
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Online Access:http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=80247