Timeline for Are point sets of the same order type connected by continuous (order type)-preserving motion?
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| Mar 22, 2019 at 13:09 | answer | added | Nikolai Mnev | timeline score: 7 | |
| May 29, 2012 at 21:35 | vote | accept | Nima Hoda | ||
| May 29, 2012 at 20:31 | comment | added | Nima Hoda | Yes, Jeff, I should have included the definition for convenience. Thanks for filling that in, Goldstern. | |
| May 29, 2012 at 20:13 | answer | added | Joseph O'Rourke | timeline score: 11 | |
| May 29, 2012 at 16:26 | comment | added | Goldstern | According to the paper that Nima Hoda links to, the order type of a (finite) set $P$ of points in general position (no 3 are collinear) is a mapping that assigns to each triple $(p,q,r)$ of distinct points in $P$ the orientation of this triple (clockwise, or counterclockwise). (It should be false for infinite sets.) | |
| May 29, 2012 at 15:01 | comment | added | Jeff Strom | It would be nice to have a definition of "order type" here in this question. | |
| May 29, 2012 at 14:20 | history | asked | Nima Hoda | CC BY-SA 3.0 |