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This paper offers combinatorial results on extremum problems concerning the number of tetrahedra in a tetrahedrization of n points in general position in three dimensions, i.e. such that no four points are coplanar. It also presents an algorithm that in O(nlog n) time constructs a tetrahedrization of a set of n points consisting of at most 3n–11 tetrahedra.
Research of the first author is supported by Amoco Fnd. Fac. Dev. Comput. Sci. 1-6-44862, the second author is supported by NSF Grant ECS 84-10902, and research of the third author is supported in part by ONR Grant N00014-85K0570 and by NSF Grant DMS 8504322.
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Edelsbrunner, H., Preparata, F.P., West, D.B. (1989). Tetrahedrizing point sets in three dimensions. In: Gianni, P. (eds) Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. ISSAC 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 358. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51084-2_31
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