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We present several applications of a recent space-partitioning technique of Chazelle, Sharir, and Welzl (Proceedings of the 6th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry, 1990, pp. 23–33). Our results include efficient algorithms for output-sensitive hidden surface removal, for ray shooting in two and three dimensions, and for constructing spanning trees with low stabbing number.
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Work on this paper has been supported by DIMACS, an NSF Science and Technology Center, under Grant STC-88-09684. The second author has been supported by Office of Naval Research Grants N00014-89-J-3042 and N00014-90-J-1284, by National Science Foundation Grant CCR-89-01484, and by grants from the U.S.-Israeli Binational Science Foundation, the Fund for Basic Research administered by the Israeli Academy of Sciences, and the G.I.F., the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development.
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Agarwal, P.K., Sharir, M. Applications of a new space-partitioning technique. Discrete Comput Geom 9, 11–38 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02189304
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