Handouts:
2/20/08: Monotone polygons and monotone mountains; linear-time triangulation of special polygons.
I answer questions from HW2.
Definitions of monotone polygons: d-monotone, monotone, strictly d-monotone, strictly monotone polygons. Examples. Definition of monotone mountains. More examples.

Overview of O(n) algorithm to triangulate monotone mountains. We do examples and discuss complexity carefully. Note that I make the algorithm specific (unlike the book): We always cut off the strictly convex (non-base-endpoint) that has max y-coordinate (assuming the polygon is a monotone mountain wrt y).

Joe Mitchell -- Hotlist -- Applied Math & Statistics -- Computer Science -- SUNY Stony Brook