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We present a simple and practical data structure for storing a (not necessarily convex) polyhedron P which can, given a query surface S cutting the polyhedron, determine the volume and the area of the portion of the polyhedron above S. The queries are answered in a time linear in the size (complexity) of S. The space and preprocessing time for this dara structure are linear in the size of P. We also present an intermediary data structure for planar graphs which is of use in other application domains.
Research supported by NSF grant CCR-9732689
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Iacono, J., Langerman, S. (2001). Volume Queries in Polyhedra. In: Akiyama, J., Kano, M., Urabe, M. (eds) Discrete and Computational Geometry. JCDCG 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2098. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47738-1_13
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