Abstract

The Fast Marching Method [8] 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. 1 Introduction Sethian`s Fast Marching Method [8], 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 the domain. The technique hinges on producing numerically consistent approximations to the operators in the Eikonal equation that select the correct viscosity solution; this is done through the use of upwind nite dierence operators. The structure of this upwinding is then used to systematically construct the solution to the Eik...

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