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Voronoi tessellation, also known as Voronoi diagram, is an important computational geometry technique that has applications in various scientific disciplines. It involves dividing a given space into regions based on the proximity to a set…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sergei Shumilin , Alexander Ryabov , Serguei Barannikov , Evgeny Burnaev , Vladimir Vanovskii

Voronoi diagrams are essential geometrical structures with numerous applications, particularly astrophysics-driven finite volume methods. While serial algorithms for constructing these entities are well-established, parallel construction…

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We present FitSKIRT, a method to efficiently fit radiative transfer models to UV/optical images of dusty galaxies. These images have the advantage that they have better spatial resolution compared to FIR/submm data. FitSKIRT uses the GAlib…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gert De Geyter , Maarten Baes , Jacopo Fritz , Peter Camps

This paper introduces an efficient $\mathcal{O}(n)$ compute and memory complexity algorithm for globally optimal path planning on 2D Cartesian grids. Unlike existing marching methods that rely on approximate discretized solutions to the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Ibrahim Ibrahim , Joris Gillis , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

Cellular structures manifest their outstanding mechanical properties in many biological systems. One key challenge for designing and optimizing these geometrically complicated structures lies in devising an effective geometric…

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) enable exact and tractable inference but employ data independent mixture weights that limit their ability to capture local geometry of the data manifold. We propose Voronoi tessellations (VT) as a natural way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Sahil Sidheekh , Sriraam Natarajan

Path planning in narrow passages is a challenging problem in various applications. Traditional planning algorithms often face challenges in complex environments like mazes and traps, where narrow entrances require special orientation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Lin Yang , Ganesh Iyer , Baichuan Lou , Sri Harsha Turlapati , Chen Lv , Domenico Campolo

We present new methods for radiative transfer on hierarchial grids. We develop a new method for calculating the scattered flux that employs the grid structure to speed up the computation. We describe a novel subiteration algorithm that can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Lunttila , M. Juvela

Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a hybrid Radiation-Hydrodynamics (RHD) scheme that couples an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-29 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

This article represents the computational model for spacial addresation of the sensors in the dynamically changing real-time internet of things system. The model bases on the Voronoi diagrams as a basic data structure. Problem - the correct…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Almagul Kondybayeva , Giovanna Di Marzo

In stark contrast to the case of images, finding a concise, learnable discrete representation of 3D surfaces remains a challenge. In particular, while polygon meshes are arguably the most common surface representation used in geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nissim Maruani , Roman Klokov , Maks Ovsjanikov , Pierre Alliez , Mathieu Desbrun

We describe a new algorithm for computing the Voronoi diagram of a set of $n$ points in constant-dimensional Euclidean space. The running time of our algorithm is $O(f \log n \log \Delta)$ where $f$ is the output complexity of the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Gary L. Miller , Donald R. Sheehy

We present an iteration method to derive exact rotation curves (RC) of spiral galaxies from observed position-velocity diagrams (PVD), which comprises the following procedure. An initial rotation curve, RC0, is adopted from an observed PV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tsutomu TAKAMIYA , Yoshiaki SOFUE

Extraction of a high-fidelity 3D medial axis is a crucial operation in CAD. When dealing with a polygonal model as input, ensuring accuracy and tidiness becomes challenging due to discretization errors inherent in the mesh surface.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Pengfei Wang , Jiantao Song , Lei Wang , Shiqing Xin , Dongming Yan , Shuangmin Chen , Changhe Tu , Wenping Wang

A Voronoi diagram is a basic geometric structure that partitions the space into regions associated with a given set of sites, such that all points in a region are closer to the corresponding site than to all other sites. While being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann , Leon Schiller

Observations and theoretical calculations have shown the importance of non-spherically symmetric structures in supernovae. Thus, the interpretation of observed supernova spectra requires the ability to solve the transfer equation in 3-D…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 E. Baron , Peter H. Hauschildt , Bin Chen

We present Deformable Voxel Grids (DVGs) for 3D shapes comparison and processing. It consists of a voxel grid which is deformed to approximate the silhouette of a shape, via energy-minimization. By interpreting the DVG as a local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Raphaël Groscot , Laurent D. Cohen

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) is widely used for real-time photorealistic effects. PRT disentangles the rendering equation into transfer and lighting, enabling their precomputation. Transfer accounts for the cosine-weighted visibility…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sirikonda Dhawal , Aakash KT , P. J. Narayanan

In this paper, we tackle the problem of localizing the source of a three-dimensional signal field with a team of mobile robots able to collect noisy measurements of its strength and share information with each other. The adopted strategy is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Lara Briñón-Arranz , Martin Abou Hamad , Alessandro Renzaglia

The Voronoi diagram is a certain geometric data structure which has numerous applications in various scientific and technological fields. The theory of algorithms for computing 2D Euclidean Voronoi diagrams of point sites is rich and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Daniel Reem