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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

Topology optimization is able to maximally leverage the high DOFs and mechanical potentiality of porous foams but faces three fundamental challenges: conforming to free-form outer shapes, maintaining geometric connectivity between adjacent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Ming Li , Jingqiao Hu , Wei Chen , Weipeng Kong , Jin Huang

Polycrystal microstructures, with their distinct physical, chemical, structural and topological entities, play an important role in determining the effective properties of materials. Particularly for computational studies, the well-known…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-07 Prince Henry Serrao , Stefan Sandfeld , Aruna Prakash

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

Machine learning techniques have been used to quantify the relationship between local structural features and variations in local dynamical activity in disordered glass-forming materials. To date these methods have been applied to an array…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-01-07 Indrajit Tah , Tristan A. Sharp , Andrea J. Liu , Daniel M. Sussman

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Maor Mizrachi , Barak Raveh , Elad Steinberg

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

The classic Voronoi cells can be generalized to a higher-order version by considering the cells of points for which a given $k$-element subset of the set of sites consists of the $k$ closest sites. We study the structure of the $k$-order…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-14 Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz , Vera Roshchina , Maxim Todorov

In this paper, we propose a novel space partitioning strategy for implicit hierarchy visualization such that the new plot not only has a tidy layout similar to the treemap, but also is flexible to data changes similar to the Voronoi…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Yan-Chao Wang , Feng Lin , Hock-Soon Seah

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

Spatial statistical analysis of multivariate volumetric data can be challenging due to scale, complexity, and occlusion. Advances in topological segmentation, feature extraction, and statistical summarization have helped overcome the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-16 Tyson Neuroth , Martin Rieth , Konduri Aditya , Myoungkyu Lee , Jacqueline H Chen , Kwan-Liu Ma

Voronoi treemaps are used to depict nodes and their hierarchical relationships simultaneously. However, in addition to the hierarchical structure, data attributes, such as co-occurring features or similarities, frequently exist. Examples…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Patrick Paetzold , Rebecca Kehlbeck , Yumeng Xue , Bin Chen , Yunhai Wang , Oliver Deussen

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

TOPCAT, the Tool for OPerations on Catalogues And Tables, is an interactive desktop application for retrieval, analysis and manipulation of tabular data, offering a powerful and flexible range of interactive visualization options amongst…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-10 Mark Taylor

Voronoi diagrams are a fundamental geometric data structure for obtaining proximity relations. We consider collections of axis-aligned orthogonal polyhedra in two and three-dimensional space under the max-norm, which is a particularly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ioannis Z. Emiris , Christina Katsamaki

Given a network, the statistical ensemble of its graph-Voronoi diagrams with randomly chosen cell centers exhibits properties convertible into information on the network's large scale structures. We define a node-pair level measure called…

The Voronoi tessellation is a natural way of space segmentation, which has many applications in various fields of science and technology, as well as in social sciences and visual art. The varieties of the Voronoi tessellation methods are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 Irina Vavilova , Andrii Elyiv , Daria Dobrycheva , Olga Melnyk

Topological maps are more suitable than metric maps for robotic exploration tasks. However, real-time updating of accurate and detail-rich environmental topological maps remains a challenge. This paper presents a topological map updating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yanbin Li , Canran Xiao , Shenghai Yuan , Peilai Yu , Ziruo Li , Zhiguo Zhang , Wenzheng Chi , Wei Zhang

We introduce a general, efficient method to completely describe the topology of individual grains, bubbles, and cells in three-dimensional polycrystals, foams, and other multicellular microstructures. This approach is applied to a pair of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-10 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jeremy K. Mason , Robert D. MacPherson , David J. Srolovitz

In quantum information theory, a geometric approach, known as "quantum information geometry," has been considered as a powerful method. In this thesis, we give a computational geometric interpretation to the geometric structure of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-24 Kimikazu Kato