文摘
A digital plane is the set of integer points located between the parallel planes. We solve the following problem: how to compute the exact normal vector of a digital plane given only a predicate that answers the question “is a point x in the digital plane or not”. Our approach is iterative and “as local as possible”. We provide a worst-case complexity bound in class="mathmlsrc">class="formulatext stixSupport mathImg" data-mathURL="/science?_ob=MathURL&_method=retrieve&_eid=1-s2.0-S0304397515010828&_mathId=si1.gif&_user=111111111&_pii=S0304397515010828&_rdoc=1&_issn=03043975&md5=7be952c2290c6632e14e14be6fc1c225" title="Click to view the MathML source">O(ωlogω)class="mathContainer hidden">class="mathCode"> calls to the predicate, where ω is equal to the arithmetic thickness parameter of the digital plane. Furthermore, our algorithm presents a much better average behavior in practice.