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A Practical Algorithm for Approximating Shortest Weighted Path between a Pair of Points on Polyhedral Surface

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This paper presents an approximation algorithm for finding minimum cost path between two points on the surface of a weighted polyhedron in 3D. It terminates in finite time. For a restricted class of polyhedron better approximation bound can be obtained.

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Roy, S., Das, S., Nandy, S.C. (2004). A Practical Algorithm for Approximating Shortest Weighted Path between a Pair of Points on Polyhedral Surface. In: Laganá, A., Gavrilova, M.L., Kumar, V., Mun, Y., Tan, C.J.K., Gervasi, O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2004. ICCSA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3045. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24767-8_5

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