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Many methods for modelling spatial processes assume global smoothness properties; such assumptions are often violated in practice. We introduce a method for modelling spatial processes that display heterogeneity or contain discontinuities.…

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

The Voronoi Density Estimator (VDE) is an established density estimation technique that adapts to the local geometry of data. However, its applicability has been so far limited to problems in two and three dimensions. This is because…

Voronoi tessellations of Poisson point processes are widely used for modeling many types of physical and biological systems. In this paper, we analyze simulated Poisson-Voronoi structures containing a total of 250,000,000 cells to provide…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-09 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jeremy K. Mason , Robert D. MacPherson , David J. Srolovitz

Parallel computing has turned out to be the enabling technology to solve complex physical systems. However, the transition from shared memory, vector computers to massively parallel, distributed memory systems and, recently, to hybrid…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Hoeflich

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, and their more general weighted counterpart, power diagrams, are fundamental geometric constructs with wide-ranging applications. Recently, they have gained renewed attention in mesh-based neural rendering. Despite being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Bernardo Taveira , Carl Lindström , Maryam Fatemi , Lars Hammarstrand , Fredrik Kahl

In this paper we investigate relationships between the volumes of cells of three-dimensional Voronoi tessellations and the lengths and areas of sections obtained by intersecting the tessellation with a randomly oriented plane. Here, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-10-12 L. Zaninetti , M. Ferraro

We review the concepts of the Voronoi binning technique (Cappellari & Copin 2003), which optimally solves the problem of preserving the maximum spatial resolution of general two-dimensional data, given a constraint on the minimum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 Michele Cappellari

Current and upcoming cosmological observations allow us to probe structures on smaller and smaller scales, entering highly nonlinear regimes. In order to obtain theoretical predictions in these regimes, large cosmological simulations have…

We have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P^3M) simulation code for the T3E well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in cosmological contexts. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Tom MacFarland , Jakob Pichlmeier , Frazer Pearce , Hugh Couchman

Accurate taxi demand-supply forecasting is a challenging application of ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems), due to the complex spatial and temporal patterns. We investigate the impact of different spatial partitioning techniques on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Neema Davis , Gaurav Raina , Krishna Jagannathan

We introduce an algorithm to estimate the redshift distribution of a sample of galaxies selected photometrically given a subsample with measured spectroscopic redshifts. The approach uses a non-parametric Voronoi tessellation density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-10 Benjamin R. Granett

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

We describe the development of a new software tool, called "Pomelo", for the calculation of Set Voronoi diagrams. Voronoi diagrams are a spatial partition of the space around the particles into separate Voronoi cells, e.g. applicable to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-02-16 Simon Weis , Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer , Fabian M. Schaller , Matthias Schröter , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk

A novel algorithm to detect coherent structures with sparse Lagrangian particle tracking data, using Voronoi tessellation and techniques from spectral graph theory, is tested. Neighbouring tracer particles are naturally identified through…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-29 F. A. C. Martins , D. E. Rival

Determining the masses of new physics particles appearing in decay chains is an important and longstanding problem in high energy phenomenology. Recently it has been shown that these mass measurements can be improved by utilizing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-09 Dipsikha Debnath , James S. Gainer , Can Kilic , Doojin Kim , Konstantin T. Matchev , Yuan-Pao Yang

We have developed a novel method of determining 2D radial density profiles for astronomical systems of discrete objects using Voronoi tessellations. This Voronoi-based method was tested against the standard annulus-based method on 5…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-04 Veronika Dornan , William E. Harris

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 have developed a parallel Particle-Particle, Particle-Mesh (P3M) simulation code for the Cray T3E parallel supercomputer that is well suited to studying the time evolution of systems of particles interacting via gravity and gas forces in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tom MacFarland , H. M. P. Couchman , F. R. Pearce , Jakob Pichlmeier