Computing Geodesic Paths on Manifolds
Abstract
The Fast Marching Method is a numerical algorithm for solving the Eikonal equation on a rectangular orthogonal mesh in O(M log M) steps, where M is the total number of grid points. In this paper we extend the Fast Marching Method to triangulated domains with the same computational complexity. As an application, we provide an optimal time algorithm for computing the geodesic distances and thereby extracting shortest paths on triangulated manifolds.
- Publication:
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Science
- Pub Date:
- July 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8431
- Bibcode:
- 1998PNAS...95.8431K