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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

Electrical grids are geographical and topological structures whose voltage states are challenging to represent accurately and efficiently for visual analysis. The current common practice is to use colored contour maps, yet these can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Isaiah Lyons-Galante , Morteza Karimzadeh , Samantha Molnar , Graham Johnson , Kenny Gruchalla

Owing to the natural interpretation and various desirable mathematical properties, centroidal Voronoi tessellations (CVT) have found a wide range of applications and correspondingly a vast development in their literature. However the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bhagyashri Telsang , Seddik Djouadi

In this paper, we investigate the optimization of Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations (CVT) under geometric constraints. For this purpose, we minimize a linear combination of the standard CVT energy functional with terms involving geometric…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Ernesto G. Birgin , Juan S. C. Franco , Antoine Laurain

Voronoi diagrams appear in many areas in science and technology and have numerous applications. They have been the subject of extensive investigation during the last decades. Roughly speaking, they are a certain decomposition of a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Daniel Reem

Testing of the disjunction hypothesis is appropriate when each gene or location studied is associated with multiple $p$-values, each of which is of individual interest. This can occur when more than one aspect of an underlying process is…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-01 Daisy Phillips , Debashis Ghosh

In this paper, we review the computational aspects of a multiscale dissipative particle dynamics model for complex fluid simulations based on the feature-rich geometry of the Voronoi tessellation. The geometrical features of the model are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

We study Voronoi diagrams of manifolds and varieties with respect to polyhedral norms. We provide upper and lower bounds on the dimensions of Voronoi cells. For algebraic varieties, we count their full-dimensional Voronoi cells. As an…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Adrian Becedas , Kathlén Kohn , Lorenzo Venturello

The purpose of this note is to clarify the effect of the finite size of spherical particles upon the characteristics of their spatial distribution through a random Poisson process (RPP). This information is of special interest when using…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-15 Markus Uhlmann

3D Voronoi's tessellation method was first applied to identify groups of galaxies in the structure of a supercluster. The sample under consideration consists of more than 7000 galaxies of the Local Supercluster (LS) with radial velocities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 O. V. Melnyk , A. A. Elyiv , I. B. Vavilova

The Voronoi tessellation is the partition of space for a given seeds pattern and the result of the partition depends completely on the type of given pattern "random", Poisson-Voronoi tessellations (PVT), or "non-random", Non Poisson-Voronoi…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-11-23 M. Ferraro , L. Zaninetti

Since the Voronoi diagram appears in many applications, the topic of improving its computational efficiency remains attractive. We propose a novel yet efficient method to compute Voronoi diagrams bounded by a given domain, i.e., the clipped…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yanyang Xiao , Juan Cao , Zhonggui Chen

Consider a homogeneous Poisson point process of the Euclidean plane and its Voronoi tessellation. The present note discusses the properties of two stationary point processes associated with the latter and depending on a parameter $\theta$.…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-11-02 François Baccelli , Sanket S. Kalamkar

Tessellations are an important tool to model the microstructure of cellular and polycrystalline materials. Classical tessellation models include the Voronoi diagram and Laguerre tessellation whose cells are polyhedra. Due to the convexity…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Christian Jung , Claudia Redenbach

The Voronoi model is a popular tool for studying confluent living tissues. It exhibits an anomalous glassy behavior even at very low temperatures or weak active self-propulsion, and at zero temperature the model exhibits a disordered solid…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-09-30 D. E. P. Pinto , D. M. Sussman , M. M. Telo da Gama , N. A. M. Araujo

In this research, we propose a novel technique for visualizing nonstationarity in geostatistics, particularly when confronted with a single realization of data at irregularly spaced locations. Our method hinges on formulating a statistic…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-29 ShengLi Tzeng , Bo-Yu Chen , Hsin-Cheng Huang

The application of Voronoi and Delaunay tessellation based methods for reconstructing continuous fields from discretely sampled data sets is discussed. The succesfull operation as ``multidimensional interpolation'' method is corroborated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rien van de Weygaert , Willem Schaap

The large-scale matter distribution represents a complex network of structure elements such as voids, clusters, filaments, and sheets. This network is spanned by a point distribution. The global properties of the point process can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrei G. Doroshkevich , Stefan Gottloeber , Soeren Madsen

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

The spatial cosmic matter distribution on scales of a few up to more than a hundred Megaparsec displays a salient and pervasive foamlike pattern. Voronoi tessellations are a versatile and flexible mathematical model for such weblike spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-20 Rien van de Weygaert