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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 use Lie sphere geometry to describe two large categories of generalized Voronoi diagrams that can be encoded in terms of the Lie quadric, the Lie inner product, and polyhedra. The first class consists of diagrams defined in terms of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-20 John Edwards , Tracy Payne , Elena Schafer

Irregular arrangements of vesicles filled with excitable and precipitating chemical systems are imitated by Voronoi automata --- finite-state machines defined on a planar Voronoi diagram. Every Voronoi cell takes four states: resting,…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Andrew Adamatzky , Ben de Lacy Costello , Julian Holley , Jerzy Gorecki , Larry Bull

The Voronoi Diagram is a geometrical structure that is widely used in scientific or technological applications where proximity is a relevant aspect to consider, and it also resembles natural phenomena such as cellular banks, rock formations…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Rodrigo Stevenson , Cristóbal A. Navarro

Although Poisson-Voronoi diagrams have interesting mathematical properties, there is still much to discover about the geometrical properties of its grains. Through simulations, many authors were able to obtain numerical approximations of…

Applications · Statistics 2017-05-19 Martina Vittorietti , Geurt Jongbloed , Piet J. J. Kok , Jilt Sietsma

Voronoi and related diagrams have technological applications, for example, in motion planning and surface reconstruction, and also find significant use in materials science, molecular biology, and crystallography. Apollonius diagrams…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Raymond P. Scaringe

The Minkowski operators (addition and substraction of sets in vectorial spaces) has been extensively used for Computer Graphics and Image Processing to represent complex shapes. Here we propose to apply those mathematical concepts to extend…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-29 Sergio-Andres Galindo-Torres , Fernando Alonso-Marroquin

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

The computation of Voronoi Diagrams, or their dual Delauney triangulations is difficult in high dimensions. In a recent publication Polianskii and Pokorny propose an iterative randomized algorithm facilitating the approximation of Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Alexander Sikorski , Martin Heida

The simulation of many-particle systems often requires the detailed knowledge of proximity relations to reduce computational complexity and to provide a basis for specific calculations. Here we describe the basic scheme of a simulator of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alessio Del Fabbro , Roberto Chignola , Edoardo Milotti

We use a simple fragmentation model to describe the statistical behavior of the Voronoi cell patterns generated by a set of points in 1D and in 2D. In particular, we are interested in the distribution of sizes of these Voronoi cells. Our…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-30 Diego Luis Gonzalez Cabrera , T. L. Einstein

Given a countable set of points in a continuous space, Voronoi tessellation is an intuitive way of partitioning the space according to the distance to the individual points. As a powerful approach to obtain structural information, it has a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-02-17 Simeon Völkel , Kai Huang

We present a new particle-merging algorithm for the particle-in-cell method. Based on the concept of the Voronoi diagram, the algorithm partitions the phase space into smaller subsets, which consist of only particles that are in close…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Phuc T. Luu , T. Tückmantel , A. Pukhov

We study algorithms and combinatorial complexity bounds for \emph{stable-matching Voronoi diagrams}, where a set, $S$, of $n$ point sites in the plane determines a stable matching between the points in $\mathbb{R}^2$ and the sites in $S$…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Gill Barequet , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich , Nil Mamano

We study Voronoi diagrams for distance functions that add together two convex functions, each taking as its argument the difference between Cartesian coordinates of two planar points. When the functions do not grow too quickly, then the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-05-14 Matthew Dickerson , David Eppstein , Kevin A. Wortman

For the analysis of systems consisting of small, regular objects, the methods of mathematical morphology applied to images of these systems are well-suited. One of these methods is the use of Voronoi polygons. It was found that the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-05-24 M. Montserrat Alonso Ferrero

This paper introduces a new approach toward characterizing local structural features of two-dimensional particle systems. The approach can accurately identify and characterize defects in high-temperature crystals, distinguish a wide range…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jiayin Lu , Chris H. Rycroft , Deborah Schwarcz

In this paper, we propose to compute Voronoi diagrams over mesh surfaces driven by an arbitrary geodesic distance solver, assuming that the input is a triangle mesh as well as a collection of sites $P=\{p_i\}_{i=1}^m$ on the surface. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Shiqing Xin , Pengfei Wang , Rui Xu , Dongming Yan , Shuangmin Chen , Wenping Wang , Caiming Zhang , Changhe Tu

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

Many physical systems can be studied as collections of particles embedded in space, evolving through deterministic evolution equations. Natural questions arise concerning how to characterize these arrangements - are they ordered or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-03 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jiayin Lu , Chris H. Rycroft