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Gersho's conjecture in 3D asserts the asymptotic periodicity and structure of the optimal centroidal Voronoi tessellation. This relatively simple crystallization problem remains to date open. We prove bounds on the geometric complexity of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-01 Rustum Choksi , Xin Yang Lu

Multicellular rosettes are observed in different situations such as morphogenesis, wound healing, and cancer progression. While some molecular insights have been gained to explain the presence of these assemblies of five or more cells…

This paper introduces a new open-source software program called VoroTop, which uses Voronoi topology to analyze local structure in atomic systems. Strengths of this approach include its abilities to analyze high-temperature systems and to…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-04-13 Emanuel A. Lazar

An important open question in the modeling of biological tissues is how to identify the right scale for coarse-graining, or equivalently, the right number of degrees of freedom. For confluent biological tissues, both vertex and Voronoi…

Tissues and Organs · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-08 Elizabeth Lawson-Keister , Tao Zhang , M. Lisa Manning

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

Optimally resolved one-dimensional density and velocity profiles through cosmological N-body simulations are constructed by means of the Voronoi-Delaunay tessellation reconstruction technique. In a fully self-adaptive fashion a strikingly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. E. Schaap , R. van de Weygaert

We introduce VoroFields, a hierarchical neural-field framework for approximating generalized Voronoi diagrams of finite geometric site sets in low-dimensional domains under arbitrary evaluable point-to-site distances. Instead of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Panagiotis Rigas , George Ioannakis , Ioannis Emiris

We argue that a detailed analysis of the spin alignement of vector mesons can serve as a probe of two little-understood aspects of spin dynamics in the vortical fluid: The degree of relaxation between vorticity and parton spin polarization,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-18 Kayman J. Gonçalves , Giorgio Torrieri

This article provides numerical evidence that under volume constraint the ball is the set which maximizes the perimeter of the least-perimeter partition into cells with prescribed areas. We introduce a numerical maximization algorithm which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Beniamin Bogosel , Edouard Oudet

Winner-takes-all training is a simple learning paradigm, which handles ambiguous tasks by predicting a set of plausible hypotheses. Recently, a connection was established between Winner-takes-all training and centroidal Voronoi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Victor Letzelter , David Perera , Cédric Rommel , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid , Gael Richard , Patrick Pérez

Ultracold polar molecules in multilayered systems have been experimentally realized very recently. While experiments study these systems almost exclusively through their chemical reactivity, the outlook for creating and manipulating exotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 A. G. Volosniev , J. R. Armstrong , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen , N. T. Zinner

VORO++ is a software library written in C++ for computing the Voronoi tessellation, a technique in computational geometry that is widely used for analyzing systems of particles. VORO++ was released in 2009 and is based on computing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Jiayin Lu , Emanuel A. Lazar , Chris H. Rycroft

Motivated by the rapidly increasing relevance of virtual material design in the domain of materials science, it has become essential to assess whether topological properties of stochastic models for a spatial tessellation are in accordance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Christian Hirsch , Johannes Krebs , Claudia Redenbach

This paper introduces nucleus clustering in Voronoi tessellations of plane surfaces with applications in the geometry of digital images. A \emph{nucleus cluster} is a collection of Voronoi regions that are adjacent to a Voronoi region…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-02-15 J. F. Peters , E. Inan

The Voronoi tessellation of a homogeneous Poisson point process in the lower half-plane gives rise to a family of vertical elongated cells in the upper half-plane. The set of edges of these cells is ruled by a Markovian branching mechanism…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Pierre Calka , Yann Demichel , Nathanaël Enriquez

We present a variational framework in which Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations (CVTs) arise as local minimizers of a generalized electrostatic energy functional. By modeling interior point distributions in a convex domain as repelling charges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-04 Zachary Mullaghy

Voronoi grids have been successfully used to represent density structures of gas in astronomical hydrodynamics simulations. While some codes are explicitly built around using a Voronoi grid, others, such as Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-03 Maya A. Petkova , Guillaume Laibe , Ian A. Bonnell

Polaritonic lattices offer a unique testbed for studying nonlinear driven-dissipative physics. They show qualitative changes of a steady state as a function of system parameters, which resemble non-equilibrium phase transitions. Unlike…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 D. Zvyagintseva , H. Sigurdsson , V. K. Kozin , I. Iorsh , I. A. Shelykh , V. Ulyantsev , O. Kyriienko

Extracting governing physical laws from computational or experimental data is crucial across various fields such as fluid dynamics and plasma physics. Many of those physical laws are dissipative due to fluid viscosity or plasma collisions.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Yubin Lu , Xiaofan Li , Chun Liu , Qi Tang , Yiwei Wang

Hyperuniform materials, characterized by their suppressed density fluctuations and vanishing structure factors as the wave number approaches zero, represent a unique state of matter that straddles the boundary between order and randomness.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-20 Yiwen Tang , Xinzhi Li , Dapeng Bi