Petr SOUKUP, Michal VOTOČEK

Construction of the Straight Skeleton Surface and Its Use in Cartography

Soukup, P., Votoček, M.: Construction of the Straight Skeleton Surface and Its Use in Cartography. Kartografické listy, 2003, 11, 3 figs., 5 refs.

Abstract: Straight skeleton is a simply structure describing the shape of a polygon. It is defined by shrinking process of the polygon boundary. It could be used for automatic label placement, finding proper method of area filling and for generalization of the polygon.

Keywords: Straight skeleton, medial axis, digital cartography