Poisson skeleton revisited: a new mathematical perspective (Q2251211)

The paper is concerned with the computation of the skeleton of a shape \(\Omega\) included in \(\mathbb{R}^2.\) The authors show some connections between the Euclidean distance function \(d\) to \(\partial \Omega\) and the solution \(u\) of the Poisson problem \(\Delta u(x) = -1\) if \(x\) is in \(\Omega\) and \(u(x) = 0\) if \(x\) is on \(\partial \Omega.\) A new and fast algorithm is proposed to compute an approximation of the skeleton of \(\partial \Omega\). Some numerical experiments illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm.